Exploding

Quick meaning: Exploding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of explode.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of explode.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

My head is exploding from all this rubbish.

Blowings up —explodings— Such would be your fate; Streams of fire 'neath us! — Bless us, what a state!

When helpless, a soldier lay racked with his goadings Of wounds he'd received in the battle's explodings.

How can these vitality affects be described? They are surgings, fadings, explodings, collapsings, slowings down, drawing out or drifting, feelings.

Word Forms

• explodings

Synonyms for exploding

Depending on context, synonyms include explosive, increasing, bursting, detonating.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include explosive, increasing, bursting, detonating, explosion, blasting.

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