2. To bring into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme,
fashion, or doctrine.
Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud.
Burke.
To explode and exterminate dark atheism.
Bently. 3. To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire.
4. To drive out with violence and noise, as by powder.
But late the kindled powder did explode
The massy ball and the brass tube unload.
Blackmore. Explodent
(Ex*plod"ent) n.
1. An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.
2. See Explosive, n., 2.
Exploder
(Ex*plod"er) n.
1. One who or that which explodes.
2. One who rejects an opinion or scheme with open contempt. South.
Exploit
(Ex*ploit") n. [OE. esploit success, OF. esploit, espleit,revenue, product, vigor, force, exploit,
F. exploit exploit, fr. L. explicitum, prop. p. p. neut. of explicare to unfold, display, exhibit; ex + plicare
to fold. See Ply, and cf. Explicit, Explicate.]
1. A deed or act; especially, a heroic act; a deed of renown; an adventurous or noble achievement; as, the
exploits of Alexander the Great.
Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.
Shak. 2. Combat; war. [Obs.]
He made haste to exploit some warlike service.
Holland. 2. [F. exploiter.] To utilize; to make available; to get the value or usefulness out of; as, to exploit a mine
or agricultural lands; to exploit public opinion. [Recent]
3. Hence: To draw an illegitimate profit from; to speculate on; to put upon. [Recent]
In no sense whatever does a man who accumulates a fortune by legitimate industry exploit his employés
or make his capital "out of" anybody else.
W. G. Sumner. Exploitation
(Ex`ploi*ta"tion) n. [F.] The act of exploiting or utilizing. J. D. Whitney.
Exploiture
(Ex*ploi"ture) n.
1. The act of exploiting or accomplishing; achievement. [Obs.] Udall.
2. Exploitation. Harper's Mag.
Explorable
(Ex*plor"a*ble) a. That may be explored; as, an explorable region.
Explorate
(Ex*plo"rate) v. t. [L. explorare, exploratum.] To explore. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.
