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Blow up

verb

Cause to burst with a violent release of energy. Synonyms: detonate, explode, set off.

Make large. Synonyms: enlarge, magnify.

Get very angry and fly into a rage. Synonyms: 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. "Spam makes me go ballistic"

Add details to. Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad.

Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction. Synonyms: detonate, explode. "The Molotov cocktail exploded"

Exaggerate or make bigger. Synonyms: amplify, expand, inflate.

Fill with gas or air. Synonym: inflate.

To swell or cause to enlarge,. Synonyms: puff, puff out, puff up. "Puffed out chests"

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"Blow up" Quotes from Famous Books

... nothing that is grand, or creative, or wise. He could not make one of these grains of alum. He could not blow up one of these bubbles on the spring. He does some things that seem smart; but taking him all in all, he is the biggest fool in ...

— Around The Tea-Table • T. De Witt Talmage

... busy babel of garden talk. There was a sort of farmer-like geniality in the air. One spoke freely to strangers. Every man with a hoe was a friend. Men chewed straws in their offices, and kept looking out of windows to pretend to themselves that they were afraid it might blow up rain. "Got your tomatoes in?" one man would ask another as they went up in the elevator. "Yes, I got mine in yesterday," the other would answer, "But I'm just a little afraid that this east wind may blow up a little frost. What we need now is growing weather." And the two men ...

— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock

... left to understand that, if the grasshopper were turned, it would hop ... and with it many members of the human race! There was no doubt but that the grasshopper controlled an electric current intended to blow up ...

— The Phantom of the Opera • Gaston Leroux

... a modest attempt to blow up Parliament, the King and his Counsellors. James of Scotland, then King of England, was weak-minded and extravagant. He hit upon the efficient scheme of extorting money from the people by imposing taxes on the Catholics. In their natural resentment to this extortion, a handful of bold spirits ...

— Capitola's Peril - A Sequel to 'The Hidden Hand' • Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth

... chimney on the north side of the cabin and blow it to pieces, just to scare the monster out, or kill him and his daughter, it did not matter which. Edwards praised the plan. He said that if it were not that he had to go to Pelican Lake that very night he would go along and help blow up ...

— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

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