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blow up Definition

• (v) cause to explode; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
• (v) make large; "blow up an image"
• (v) 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"
• (v) add details to
• (v) exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
• (v) fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
• (v) to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"

blow up Synonyms

• aggrandise
• aggrandize
• amplify
• blow a fuse
• blow one's stack
• blow up
• combust
• detonate
• dramatise
• dramatize
• embellish
• embroider
• enlarge
• expand
• explode
• flip one's lid
• flip one's wig
• fly off the handle
• go ballistic
• have a fit
• have kittens
• hit the ceiling
• hit the roof
• inflate
• lard
• lose one's temper
• magnify
• pad
• puff
• puff out
• puff up
• set off
• throw a fit