Blow Up

Definition: Blow Up

Blow Up

Verb

1. Cause to explode; "We exploded the nuclear bomb".

2. Make large; "blow up an image".

3. Blow one's stack; fly off the handle, flip one's wig; lose one's temper; blow a fuse.

4. Add details to.

5. Exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated".

6. Fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons".

7. To swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Computing

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Synonyms: Blow Up

Destruction

Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.

Disapprobation

Reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete, overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet.

Reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach; rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming; correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff; slap, slap on the face; home thrust, hit; frown, scowl, black look.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Expansion

Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.

Violence

Outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent.

Break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode, fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break open, force open, prize open.

Wind

Fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate; blow up.

Crosswords: Blow Up

Aaaaah! This is the part where we blow up! (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

You want to blow up the moon (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

Somebody burp me before I blow up! (Look Who's Talking; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

First, I need to blow up one thing (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

That's what I was trying to do and then somebody made me blow up my guru (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

He might blow up and kill this man (Achy Breaky Heart; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus)

Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow Up (1968)

They Came to Blow Up America (1943)

Fashion and Photography: The Real Blow Up Fame (2002)

Valley of the Blow Up Dolls (1994)

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Books

• They Blow Up So Fast! (SpongeBob SquarePants) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blow Up (reference)

• Bubblegum Crisis, Episode 3: Blow Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Blow up Your Video (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Coal miners and their families watching the girls and women's skirts blow up in the "crazy boat" at the outdoor carnival. Granville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Syria

In 1986, the U.S. withdrew its ambassador and imposed additional administrative sanctions on Syria in response to evidence of direct Syrian involvement in an attempt to blow up an Israeli airplane. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "blow up": blow up a tyre ♦ blow up the fire ♦ make blow up ♦ To blow up ♦ to blow up letters. Additional references.

Albanian

xhindosem (fly off the handle), shpërthej (blast, break, break out, burst, detonate, erupt, explode, flame out, flame up, freak, implode, let off, poke out), shfryhem (back down), pëlcas (blow back, burst, detonate, discharge, explode, rip), nxehem (become heated, become hot, chafe, fire up, fly into a passion, fly into a rage, get angry, get hot, lose one's temper). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فقد صوابه (blow one's top, fly off the handle, go haywire, lose one's marbles, lose one's reason, lose one's temper, pass out, pole), ‏فجر (aurora, beginning, blast, burst, dawn, detonate, dynamite, explode, let flow, morning, set off, shot out, spout, spurt, undermine), ‏كبر الصورة, ‏هب (blow, breathe, supposing), ‏نفخ (balloon, be puffed up, belly out, bloat, distend, distension, fill out, inflate, inflation, insufflation, plump, pout, puff, pumping, sulk, swell out, windiness), ‏نسف (blast, blasting, blowing up, blowup, sinking, torpedo, torpedoing), ‏عنف (check, chide, convulse, expostulate, fierceness, force, heating, impetuosity, rant, rebuke, roughness, rowdyism, rudeness, scold, smarten, thuggery, vehemence, violence, whip off), ‏إنفجر (blaze, blow out, break, burst, crack, erupt, rupture, spew forth, split), ‏إندلع (stick out), ‏بالغ (adult, amplify, embroider, exaggerate, extreme, grown up, magnify, ostentatious, overdo, overdraw, overstate, overstep, play up, pubescent, romance, strain a point). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увеличавам (accrete, accumulate, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, enlarge, expand, improve, increase, magnify, multiply, put up, swell), фалирам (break, fail, go, go into liquidation, go phut, go to pieces, liquidate, peg out, smash, smash up), кипвам (boil over, fly off the handle, prove), важнича (flaunt, lord it, queen it, swell with importance), насолявам (pepper), напомпвам (inflate, pump up), надувам се (be arrogant, fill, preen, show off, swell with importance, take on), надигам се (arise, boil up, get up, pull up, rear, rise, simmer, surge, swell, uprise, well up), експлодирам (blow off, bust, detonate, explode, fulminate), подривам (blast, disrupt, eat away, erode, gut, sap, shovel under, tear up, undermine, wash, wash out, wear away), излизам (add up, come, come away, come off, come out, emerge, exit, get out, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, propound, prove, pull out, rise, run off, sally, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out), избухвам (blaze, blow, break forth, burst out, erupt, explode, fire, flash, fly into a rage, fulminate, go off the deep end, lose one's temper, pop off). (various references)

Chinese 

爆炸 (explosion, to blow up, to detonate, to explode), 爆� � (blast, dynamite, to blow up, to demolish). (various references)

Czech

zvìtšit (add to, aggrandize, augment, bring up, enlarge, expand, heighten, magnify, widen), vyhodit do povìtří, vybuchnout (break out, detonate, erupt, explode, go bang, go off, pop off), nafouknout (bloat). (various references)

Danish

forstørre bogstaver (to blow up letters, to enlarge letters), eksplodere (explode). (various references)

Dutch

verergeren (accentuate, aggravate, heighten), opblazen (inflate), laten springen, laten ontploffen, aandikken (accentuate, heighten, thicken). (various references)

Esperanto

pligravigi (heighten), eksplodigi. (various references)

Finnish

räjäyttää (explode), räjähtää (explode), puhaltaa jotakin ilmaa täyteen (inflate). (various references)

French

faire sauter (blast, blow), aggraver. (various references)

German

aufblasen (bloat, blow out, inflate, inflation, puff out, puff up, to bloat, to blow up, to inflate). (various references)

Greek 

εκρήγνυμαι (blast, detonate, erupt, explode, go off), ανατινάζω (explode). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפוצץ (blast, blow, bust, detonate, explode, let off), ל� פח (bamboozle, exaggerate, inflate, puff, swell, word). (various references)

Hungarian

veszekedés (altercation, bickering, brawl, broil, dispute, flare-up, hassle, jangle, jarring, quarrel, run-in, tiff, traverse, unpleasantness), nagyítás (aggrandizement, amplification, enlargement, enlarging, exaggeration, hyperbole, hyperbolism, increase, power, projection print), nagyít (aggrandize, augment, enlarge, exaggerate, increase, to cut it fat, to draw the long bow, to enlarge, to exaggerate), felrobbant (detonate, exploded, to bump, to detonate, to explode, to set off, to touch off), felnagyítás (aggrandizement), felfúj (balloon, blew, blown, distend, inflate, puff up, to balloon, to ballyho, to bloat, to blow, to blow up a football tight, to distend, to expand, to hove, to inflate, to puff, to puff up, to pump up). (various references)

Indonesian

membusakan (blow out). (various references)

Italian

saltare (bound, go phut, hop, jump, leap, pop, run, sit out, skip, spring, stop by, vault), montare (assemble, climb, come up, cover, edit, exaggerate, fit, get big-headed, get on, go up, mount, mount on, pitch, put together, ride, rise, set, to assemble, whip, whisk), gonfiare (bloat, blow, exaggerate, inflate, pad, plump, puff out, puff up, pump up, swell), esplòdere (explode). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

爆� � (blast, explosion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ばくは (blast, explosion). (various references)

Manx

sheidey neose (down-draught), lhieeney (billow, charge, charge as battery, cover in, fill, fill in, fill out, flood tide, flow, fuel, inset, load, make, make of tide, pad, rise, saturate, spasm, wax, wax as moon), blestal (blast). (various references)

Pig Latin

owblay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

causarexplosão. (various references)

Romanian

sufla în (blow, breathe, puff, puff out), se explodeze, face sã sarã în aer, exploda (blast, blow out, burst, detonate, explode, fulminate, go bang, go off, go up), dinamita, ciondãnealã (bickering, chiding, miff, scolding, scrap, wrangle). (various references)

Russian 

расстраивать (baffle, defeat, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, distune, disturb, faze, frustrate, shatter, thwart, unnerve, unsettle, untune, upset), взрываться (explode, fulminate), взрывать;надувать, взрывать (blast, detonate, explode, implode, shoot, touch off), взорвать, надуваться (belly, swell). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvećavati, povećati (augment, enhance, increase, magnify, pad, up), napumpati (pump, pump up), naduvati (distend, inflate, puff, puff at, puff up), nadimati se (belly), minirati (mine), dići u vazduh. (various references)

Spanish

volar (blow, fly, sail, spring, walk, wing), soplar (blow, fan, grass, inform, peach, prompt, puff, set, sit, split, tell, waft), salir de sus casillas, reventar (blow out, break, burst), inflar (bloat, inflate, pump up), hacer un reventón, hacer saltar (explode, jump), hacer creer (convince, put about, put around), explotar (bang, blast, develop, draw on, draw upon, explode, exploit, go off, go pop, go up, harness, make capital out of, mine, operate, run, set off, sweat, tap, touch off, utilize, work), explosionar (explode, go off), estallar (bang, break, break forth, break out, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, flare up, go off, go up, outbreak, puncture, shatter), dar bombo (write up), ampliar (aggrandize, amplify, broaden, develop, enlarge, extend). (various references)

Swedish

spränga (blast, break, burst, crack, detonate, explode, smash). (various references)

Turkish

büyütmek (aggrandize, amplify, augment, bring up, dilate, dramatize, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, Foster, glorify, greaten, grow, magnify, make big, make the most of, nourish, nurture, overstate, raise, rear, rebore, soup up), tepesi atmak (be hopping mad, be steamed up, blow one's stack, blow one's top, flip one's lid, fly off the handle, go off at half-cock, go off the deep end, go on the rampage, lose one's temper, lose one's wool, see red), tahrip etmek (batter down, demolish, destroy, devastate), patlatmak (blast, bust, detonate, explode, let off, make blow up, make burst, make explode, pop, puncture, set off, touch off), patlamak (blow, blow out, break, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), patlak vermek (break out, burst, burst out, erupt, explode, outcrop), kopmak (break, break off, come off, detach, fly off, part, rupture, separate, sever, snap, split, sunder, tear), infilak etmek (burst, detonate, explode, go pop, spring), havaya uçurmak (blast, explode), havaya uçmak (go up), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, trim, twit, upbraid, vituperate), şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat, bloat up, bulk, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, heighten, inflate, overcharge, pad, pad out, pile it on, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, run up, swell out, swell up, tumefy), öfkelenmek (be steamed up, blow one's stack, blow one's top, cut up rough, flame up, flash out, fly into a passion, fly out, get angry, get hot, get hot under the collar, go off the deep end, grow hot, lash oneself into a fury, lose one's temper, rampage, see red, storm, work oneself up into a rage). (various references)

Turkmen 

яarmak (cut up, explode), maяyrmak (subvert). (various references)

Ukrainian

висажувати в повітря, вибух (bang, blast, blowing up, burst, bursting, detonation, explosion, howl, hurricane, outbreak, outleap, storm, tornado). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blowup.

-1 letter: upbow.

-2 letters: blow, bowl, loup, plow.

-3 letters: bop, bow, lob, lop, low, owl, pol, pow, pub, pul, upo, wop.

-4 letters: bo, lo, op, ow, up, wo.

+1 letter: blowups.