blow up
verb
What it means
- verb make large “blow up an image”
- verb fill with gas or air “inflate a balloons”
- verb exaggerate or make bigger “The charges were inflated”
- 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”
- verb to swell or cause to enlarge “Her faced puffed up from the drugs”
- verb burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction “the bomb detonated at noon”
- verb cause to burst with a violent release of energy “We exploded the nuclear bomb”
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