Overview of verb blow-up

The verb blow up has 8 senses

• explode, detonate, blow up, set off -- (cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb")


• blow up, enlarge, magnify -- (make large; "blow up an image")


• flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic -- (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")


• embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise -- (add details to)


• detonate, explode, blow up -- (burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded")


• inflate, blow up, expand, amplify -- (exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated")


• inflate, blow up -- (fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons")


• puff, puff up, blow up, puff out -- (to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests")

Overview of adj blown-up

The adj blown-up has 1 sense

• blown-up, enlarged -- (as of a photograph; made larger; "the enlarged photograph revealed many details")