1. blow_up - verb
· cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
Synonym(s): explode, detonate, set_off
Hypernym(s): change_integrity
2. blow_up - verb
· make large; "blow up an image"
Hypernym(s): increase
Antonym(s): reduce
3. blow_up - verb
· 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"
Synonym(s): flip_one%27s_lid, throw_a_fit, hit_the_roof, hit_the_ceiling, have_kittens, have_a_fit, combust, blow_one%27s_stack, fly_off_the_handle, flip_one%27s_wig, lose_one%27s_temper, blow_a_fuse, go_ballistic
Hypernym(s): rage
4. blow_up - verb
· add details to
Synonym(s): embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, dramatize, dramatise
Hypernym(s): overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
5. blow_up - verb
· burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction; "the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded"
6. blow_up - verb
· exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
Synonym(s): inflate, expand, amplify
Hypernym(s): increase
7. blow_up - verb
· fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
Synonym(s): inflate
Hypernym(s): expand
8. blow_up - verb
· to swell or cause to enlarge; "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
Synonym(s): puff, puff_up, puff_out
Hypernym(s): swell, swell_up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
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