Also means
explode
Usage Note
Scoppiare means to burst or explode, taking essere as its auxiliary: è scoppiato. It runs through vivid idioms like scoppiare a ridere ('to burst out laughing') and scoppiare di salute ('to be bursting with health'). Of weather, scoppia un temporale means a storm breaks out.
Examples
"Il palloncino è scoppiato."
Natural Translation
The balloon burst.
Literal Translation
The balloon is burst.

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