Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of blow up
nounblowing up (plural blowings up)
plural blowings up
- colloquialExplosion.
Blowings up —explodings— Such would be your fate; Streams of fire 'neath us! — Bless us, what a state!
1876, William Cox Bennett, Songs of a Song Writer, page 60
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