exploding
English
Verb
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- present participle and gerund of explode
- My head is exploding from all this rubbish.Category:English terms with usage examples#EXPLODING
Adjective
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- (figurative) Having the appearance of an explosion.
- (figurative, businessCategory:en:Business#EXPLODING, of an offer) Only available for a very short period.
Derived terms
Related terms
- exploded (adjective)
Noun
exploding (plural explodings)Category:English lemmas#EXPLODINGCategory:English nouns#EXPLODINGCategory:English countable nouns#EXPLODINGCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#EXPLODINGCategory:Pages with entries#EXPLODINGCategory:Pages with 1 entry#EXPLODING
- (datedCategory:English dated terms#EXPLODING, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#EXPLODING) 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.Category:English terms with quotations#EXPLODING
- 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!Category:English terms with quotations#EXPLODING
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#EXPLODING
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#EXPLODING