blow up

Verb
  1. Cause to burst with a violent release of energy (synset 200307505)
    "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
    causes: blow up, detonate, explode - burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
    is a type of: change integrity - change in physical make-up
    subtypes:
    • fulminate - cause to explode violently and with loud noise
    • dynamite - blow up with dynamite
    same as: detonate, explode, set off
  2. Make large (synset 200241179)
    "blow up an image"
    referred to in: photography, picture taking - the act of taking and printing photographs
    is a type of: increase - make bigger or more
    same as: enlarge, magnify
  3. Get very angry and fly into a rage (synset 201799439)
    "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"
    is a type of: rage - feel intense anger
    same as: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, combust, 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, lose one's temper, throw a fit
  4. Add details to (synset 200958437)
    is a type of: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate - to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
    subtypes: glorify - cause to seem more splendid
    same as: aggrandise, aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad
  5. Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction (synset 200307079)
    "the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded"
    same as: detonate, explode
  6. Exaggerate or make bigger (synset 200265272)
    "The charges were inflated"
    is a type of: increase - make bigger or more
    subtypes: puff up - make larger or distend
    same as: amplify, expand, inflate
  7. Fill with gas or air (synset 200264920)
    "inflate a balloons"
    is a type of: expand - make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
    subtypes:
    same as: inflate
  8. To swell or cause to enlarge (synset 200264568)
    "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
    is a type of: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce - expand abnormally
    same as: puff, puff out, puff up

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