ellos explotan

explode, exploit

→ explotar
explot exploit; take advantage + an 3rd-person plural present (indicative or subjunctive)
verb · third plural · present indicative Rare #43,261
explode
SP: Los fuegos artificiales explotan a medianoche.
EN: The fireworks explode at midnight.
exploit
SP: Estas empresas explotan a sus trabajadores.
EN: These companies exploit their workers.
Conjugation of explotar
Indicative present
SingularPlural
Third explota explotan
Subjunctive present
SingularPlural
Third explota explotan

Siempre explotan en el bolsillo.

They always explode in your pocket.

— Perdición (1944)

A las mujeres las explotan porque no saben defenderse.

Women are exploited because they don't know how to defend themselves.

— Los cuatrocientos golpes (1959)

Mis palabras explotan como un tambor de pólvora.

My words explode like a powder keg.

— Gully Boy (2019)

Las rocas no explotan.

Rocks don't explode.

— Greenland: El último refugio (2020)

Solo nos explotan.

They only exploit us.

— Dil se.. (1998)