blow up

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verb

1. cause to burst with a violent release of energy (Freq. 4)
- We exploded the nuclear bomb
• Syn:
explode, detonate, set off
• Derivationally related forms:
blowup, detonative (for: detonate), detonation (for: detonate), detonator (for: detonate), explosion (for: explode)
• Hypernyms:
change integrity
• Hyponyms:
fulminate, dynamite
• Cause:
detonate, explode
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. make large (Freq. 1)
- blow up an image
• Syn:
enlarge, magnify
• Ant:
reduce
• Derivationally related forms:
magnitude (for: magnify), magnification (for: magnify), magnifier (for: magnify), enlargement (for: enlarge), enlarger (for: enlarge), blowup
• Topics:
photography, picture taking
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. add details to
• Syn:
embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize,
aggrandise, dramatize, dramatise
• Derivationally related forms:
drama (for: dramatize), aggrandisement (for: aggrandise), aggrandizement (for: aggrandize), embellishment (for: embellish), embroidery (for: embroider)
• Hypernyms:
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise,
magnify, amplify
• Hyponyms:
glorify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something with something
- They won't blow up the story
4. burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
- the bomb detonated at noon
- The Molotov cocktail exploded
• Syn:
detonate, explode
• Derivationally related forms:
detonative (for: detonate), detonation (for: detonate)
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
5. exaggerate or make bigger
- The charges were inflated
• Syn:
inflate, expand, amplify
• Derivationally related forms:
expansive (for: expand)
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Hyponyms:
puff up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
6. get very angry and fly into a rage
- The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
- Spam makes me go ballistic
• Syn:
flip one's lid, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens,
have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper,
blow a fuse, go ballistic
• Derivationally related forms:
blowup
• Hypernyms:
rage
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
7. fill with gas or air
- inflate a balloons
• Syn:
inflate
• Ant:
deflate (for: inflate)
• Derivationally related forms:
inflatable (for: inflate), inflation (for: inflate), inflater (for: inflate), inflator (for: inflate)
• Hypernyms:
expand
• Hyponyms:
reflate, billow, surge, heave
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
8. to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
- puffed out chests
• Syn:
puff, puff up, puff out
• Derivationally related forms:
puffer (for: puff)
• Hypernyms:
swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Did his feet blow up?