implode
verb (used without object)
to burst inward (opposed to explode).
is imploding
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present progressiveof implode (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The currency hit a 16-year low, investors have dumped the country's stocks and bonds, the property sector is imploding and disinflation is threatening to morph into outright deflation.
From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2023
At the Time Variance Authority, reality is imploding.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2023
"The SNP is imploding," he told me on the harbour side at Wick.
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2023
Davis, the former SPU board chair, said he wouldn’t say that SPU is imploding, exactly.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2022
It seems almost as though the sports experience is falling into itself, is imploding, leaving room for the many machines and gadgets we use at home in order to salvage our degenerating bodies.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
