blow up
- Verb (transitive and intransitive):
- To explode or cause to explode violently: To burst apart with a sudden, violent release of energy.
- To inflate or fill with air or gas: To cause something to expand by filling it with air.
- To enlarge, especially a photograph: To make a picture larger.
- To exaggerate or amplify: To make something seem more important or serious than it is.
- To lose one's temper suddenly and violently: To become extremely angry.
Verb (Explode):
- The engineers had to blow up the old bridge safely.
- The gas main blew up, destroying part of the street.
Verb (Inflate):
- Can you help me blow up these balloons for the party?
Verb (Enlarge):
- The graphic designer will blow up the logo for the banner.
Verb (Exaggerate):
- The media tends to blow up minor incidents into major scandals.
Verb (Lose temper):
- My boss blew up when he saw the mistake in the report.
"to blow up in someone's face": (idiomatic) For a plan or action to fail suddenly and disastrously for the person responsible.
- His scheme to cheat the company blew up in his face when he was caught.
"to blow up at someone": To direct one's sudden anger at a specific person.
- She blew up at her colleague for missing the deadline.
Blow-up (noun): A violent explosion; a large-scale enlargement of a photograph; or a sudden, angry argument.
- The blow-up of the image revealed crucial details.
- They had a huge blow-up over money.
Blown-up (adjective): Describes something that has been exploded or enlarged.
- We examined the blown-up photograph.
- Explode: To burst violently.
- Inflate: To fill with air.
- Enlarge: To make bigger.
- Exaggerate: To overstate.
- Erupt (anger): To suddenly express violent anger.
Blow over: (of trouble or an argument) to fade away without serious consequences.
- Don't worry, this disagreement will blow over soon.
Blow out: To extinguish by blowing; for a tire to burst suddenly.
- He blew out the candles. / A tire blew out on the highway.
Blow something out of proportion: To exaggerate the importance of a problem.
- You're blowing this small error out of proportion.
Blow hot and cold: To keep changing your attitude toward someone or something.
- He keeps blowing hot and cold about the project, so we don't know what he wants.
- to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
- puffed out chests
- fill with gas or air
- inflate a balloons
- exaggerate or make bigger
- The charges were inflated
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- the bomb detonated at noon
- The Molotov cocktail exploded
- add details to
- 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
- make large
- blow up an image
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy
- We exploded the nuclear bomb