exploding en · ADJ
Meanings
- (figuratively, not-comparable) Having the appearance of an explosion.
- (figuratively, not-comparable, of an offer) Only available for a very short period.
Deriveds
explodingly · nonexploding · Malaysian exploding ant
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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
exploding en · NOUN
Meanings
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(colloquial, dated) Explosion.
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: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: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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| explodings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
exploding en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of explode
form of explode
My head is exploding from all this rubbish.