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Definition of Blow up

1. Verb. Cause to burst with a violent release of energy. "We exploded the nuclear bomb"

2. Verb. Make large. "Blow up an image"

3. Verb. Get very angry and fly into a rage. "Spam makes me go ballistic"

4. Verb. Add details to. "They won't blow up the story "

5. Verb. Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction. ; "The Molotov cocktail exploded"

6. Verb. Exaggerate or make bigger. "The charges were inflated"

7. Verb. Fill with gas or air. "Inflate a balloons"

8. Verb. To swell or cause to enlarge,. "Did his feet blow up?"; "Puffed out chests"

Definition of Blow up

1. Verb. (intransitive) To explode or be destroyed by explosion. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To inflate or fill with air. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To fail disastrously. ¹

6. Verb. (slang) To become popular very quickly. ¹

7. Verb. (slang) To suddenly get very angry. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blow Up

blow out blow out of proportion blow out of the water blow over blow smoke blow someone's brains out blow someone's mind blow someone out of the water blow the whistle blow this for a game of soldiers

blow this pop stand blow this popsicle stand blow torch blow tube blow up (current term) blow up in one's face blow valve blow valves blowability blowable

blowback blowbacks blowball blowbuddies blowby blowbys blowdart

Literary usage of Blow up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"This is the fact that has given rise to the rumor that he can blow up an iron-clad ship. This might be true if he could plant his properly tuned receiver in ..."

2. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"I remember nothing very amusing connected with my present visit to this city except the following : À Challenge and a Blow-up. During Christmas time ..."

3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... blow up the magazines, and secure the passes of the town. Gilbert Forbes, a. gunsmith, in the Broadway, was taken between two and three o'clock on ..."

4. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... his right wing—Combat on the Hormaza—The French retreat behind Pancorbo and blow up the castle of Burgos—Wellington crosses the upper Ebro and turns the ..."

5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1800)
"... and another, at length Jet on fire, and blow up in the night. General conflagration. Extraordinary exertions of gallantry and humanity displayed by ..."

6. The History of Rome by Thomas Arnold (1868)
"Was it possible that Mago might kindle a fierce flame in Liguria ? might blow up the half-extinguished ashes in Etruria, and reviving the fire in the south, ..."

7. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1883)
"The Inflexible and Téméraire steamed along the of men at once,-dismount puns, and blow up magazines in the earthworks. Two of the broadside ships were at ..."

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