blowing up
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]- present participle and gerund of blow up
Noun
[edit]blowing up (plural blowings up)
- (colloquial) Explosion.
- 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!