explode

To fly apart with sudden violent force; to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.

The bomb explodes.

But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.

To destroy with an explosion.

The assassin exploded the car by means of a car bomb.

To make a violent or emotional outburst; to suddenly give expression to powerful and often negative or unpleasant emotion, especially anger.

She exploded when I criticised her hat.

Dobbin […] fell back in the crowd, crowing and sputtering until he reached a safe distance, when he exploded amongst the astonished market-people with shrieks of yelling laughter.

To increase suddenly.

When pigeons can come to a spot day in and day out for a guaranteed meal, their populations explode.

Despite these products typically costing more, the market for organic food has exploded over the last couple of decades.

To increase arbitrarily or boundlessly.

The function f(x) = 1/x explodes around x = 0.