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blow up
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Verb
  • 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
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