blow up

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

  • Some were members of Turkey's elite military class known as "pashas," a title of respect harking back to Ottoman military commanders Monday for allegedly planning to blow up mosques in order to trigger a military takeover and overthrow the WN.com - Photown News
  • The security goal is to stop them before they penetrate the security zone with the intent to blow up the city's waterfront.
  • One year later, some dirtbags tried to blow up L.A. with a nuclear bomb, so Bauer had to punch in again.
  • At the more extreme end, some individuals and groups crash aeroplanes or blow up buildings.
  • The starchy food created gas, and the bowels, not having their natural tone, gave way to the gas until there was _ "Meteorism," _ not tympanites but meteorism which means to blow up or distend all that is possible. Appendicitis
  • And there's this new idea that we've heard about that you're going to kind of bulldoze and blow up everything around the government center and kind of make a park or a green zone. CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2006
  • Be sure to blow up the tyres before you drive off.
  • All the visitors born in the war admitted their perceptions had been largely shaped by comics such as Victor and Tiger, where lone Tommies ventured behind enemy lines to blow up an ammunition dump and return with a captured SS general.
  • He fully thinks hackers are going to save the day and people are going to blow up dams in the name of salmon. So Much Pretty
  • Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.
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