exploding

English

Verb

exploding

1. present participle and gerund of explode

   My head is exploding from all this rubbish.

Adjective

exploding (not comparable)

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

Related terms

• exploded (adjective)

Noun

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.