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exploding

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of explode

    • My head is exploding from all this rubbish.

  2. Having the appearance of an explosion.

  3. Only available for a very short period.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. 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.

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Derived

explodingly, nonexploding

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at exploding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at exploding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at exploding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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