exploding

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of explode

   My head is exploding from all this rubbish.

1. figurativelynot comparableHaving the appearance of an explosion.
2. figurativelynot comparablebusinessOnly available for a very short period.

plural explodings

1. colloquialdatedExplosion.

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

   1861 April, “The Dying Soldier”, in The Wabash Monthly, volume 2, number 6, page 213

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   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

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

   2013, Arnold I. Goldberg, Progress in Self Psychology

   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.

   2021, Walter Benjamin, Peter Fenves, Julia Ng, Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition