exploding

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Verb

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exploding

  1. present participle and gerund of explode
    My head is exploding from all this rubbish.

Adjective

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exploding (not comparable)

  1. (figurative) Having the appearance of an explosion.
  2. (figurative, business, of an offer) Only available for a very short period.
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Noun

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exploding (plural explodings)

  1. (dated, colloquial) Explosion.
    • 1861 April, “The Dying Soldier”, in The Wabash Monthly, volume 2, number 6, page 213:
      When helpless, a soldier lay racked with his goadings Of wounds he'd received in the battle's explodings.
    • 1876, William Cox Bennett, Songs of a Song Writer, page 60:
      Blowings up —explodings— Such would be your fate; Streams of fire 'neath us! — Bless us, what a state!
    • 2013, Arnold I. Goldberg, Progress in Self Psychology:
      How can these vitality affects be described? They are surgings, fadings, explodings, collapsings, slowings down, drawing out or drifting, feelings.
    • 2021, Walter Benjamin, Peter Fenves, Julia Ng, Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition:
      Nietzsche judged in advance [präjudiziert] this exploding of the heavens by elevated humanness [gesteigerte Meschhaftigkeit], an exploding that, religiously (also for Nietzsche), is and remains inculpation.