Definition of blow up Blow up
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What does blow up mean?
WordNet
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| blow up - make large; "blow up an image" | ||
| enlarge, magnify | ||
| scale down, reduce reduce proportionally; "The model is scaled down" | ||
| increase make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" | ||
| picture taking, photography the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies | ||
| blow up - cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb" | ||
| explode, detonate, set off | ||
| change integrity change in physical make-up | ||
| fulminate cause to explode violently and with loud noise | ||
| dynamite blow up with dynamite; "The rock was dynamited" | ||
| blow up - fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons" | ||
| inflate | ||
| deflate become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated" | ||
| expand become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly" | ||
| reflate become inflated again | ||
| billow, surge, heave rise and move, as in waves or billows; "The army surged forward" | ||
| blow up - add details to | ||
| embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, dramatize, dramatise | ||
| hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, magnify, amplify to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" | ||
| glorify bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic" | ||
| blow up - exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" | ||
| inflate, expand, amplify | ||
| increase make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" | ||
| puff up make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up" | ||
| blow up - get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic" | ||
| flip one's lid, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic | ||
| rage feel intense anger; "Rage against the dying of the light!" | ||
| blow up - burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded" | ||
| detonate, explode | ||
| blow up - to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" | ||
| puff, puff up, puff out | ||
| swell up, tumesce, intumesce, tumefy, swell cause to become very swollen | ||
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Wiktionary 
- blow up (Verb)
To explode or be destroyed by explosion. - blow up (Verb)
To cause something or someone to explode, or to destroy something or maim or kill someone by means of an explosion. - blow up (Verb)
To inflate or fill with air. - blow up (Verb)
To enlarge or zoom in. - blow up (Verb)
To fail disastrously. - blow up (Verb)
To become popular very quickly. - blow up (Verb)
To suddenly get very angry. - blow up (Verb)
To relatively quickly become much more fat or rotund.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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blow up
To expand suddenly with great force, a loud noise and release energy because of strong inner pressure due to a violent chemical or physical reaction. -
blow up
To fill with gas or air.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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blow up
To abuse angrily.
