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blow up
verb
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What it means

  1. verb make large
    “blow up an image”
  2. verb fill with gas or air
    “inflate a balloons”
  3. verb exaggerate or make bigger
    “The charges were inflated”
  4. 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”
  5. verb to swell or cause to enlarge
    “Her faced puffed up from the drugs”
  6. verb burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
    “the bomb detonated at noon”
  7. verb cause to burst with a violent release of energy
    “We exploded the nuclear bomb”
  8. verb add details to