exploding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of explode

   “My head is exploding from all this rubbish.”

adj

1. (figuratively, not-comparable)Having the appearance of an explosion.
2. (figuratively, not-comparable)Only available for a very short period.

noun

1. (colloquial, dated)Explosion.

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

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

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

   “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.”