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1 to destroy something by an explosion The police station was blown up by terrorists. Thesaurus explode. blow up; go off; burst; erupt; detonate; These are all words that can be used when something bursts apart violently, causing damage or injury.
to fill something with air or gas so that it becomes fairly hard. The tyres on my bike need blowing up. to make a photograph bigger synonym enlarge related noun blow-up. to make something seem more important, better, worse, etc. than it really is. The whole affair was blown up out of all proportion. blow up (at somebody)
We are going to start the meanings of 'blow up' with a bang, or perhaps more aptly an explosion, as this first meaning is 'to explode'. This is most commonly used with nouns such as bombs, buildings, cars and engines, but it can be used with anything that could potentially explode.
a copy of something that is made bigger: We need a blowup of this picture. (Definition of blowup from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of blowup. blowup. This seemingly innocent chang e results in a blowup of the number of recursive calls the algorithm makes. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English blow up phrasal verb 1 to destroy something, or to be destroyed, by an explosion The plane blew up in midair. blow something ↔ up Rebels attempted to blow up the bridge. 2 blow something ↔ up to fill something with air or gas Can you blow up this balloon?
intr to come into consideration. we lived well enough before this thing blew up. intr to come into existence with sudden force. a storm had blown up. informal. to lose one's temper (with a person) informal. tr to reprimand (someone) informal. tr to enlarge the size or detail of (a photograph) noun. an explosion. informal.
informal a fit of temper or argument. WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2023. blow1 /bloʊ/ n. [ countable] a sudden, hard stroke with a hand, fist, or weapon: a quick blow to the back of the neck. a sudden shock or terrible event: Her being fired was a terrible blow.
