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blow up

English

  1. 🔊 make large
    “blow up an image”
  2. 🔊 fill with gas or air
    “inflate a balloons”
  3. 🔊 exaggerate or make bigger
    “The charges were inflated”
  4. 🔊 get very angry and fly into a rage
    “The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question”
  5. 🔊 to swell or cause to enlarge
    “Her faced puffed up from the drugs”
  6. 🔊 burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
    “the bomb detonated at noon”
  7. 🔊 cause to burst with a violent release of energy
    “We exploded the nuclear bomb”
  8. 🔊 add details to

Spanish

  1. 🔊 volar to blow up
  2. 🔊 estallar to blow up, to blow one's top, to explode
  3. 🔊 estallar to blow up, to set off, to make explode (hacer + estallar)

Similar words

enlarge magnify puff puff up puff out inflate inflate expand amplify detonate explode explode detonate set off embroider pad lard embellish aggrandize aggrandise dramatize dramatise flip one's lid throw a fit