exploding

Having the appearance of an explosion.

Adjective

  1. Having the appearance of an explosion.
  2. Only available for a very short period.

Related

exploded

Derived

explodingly Malaysian exploding ant nonexploding

Noun

  1. 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:
    • 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:

Forms

explodings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of explode
    • My head is exploding from all this rubbish.