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[ verb ] cause to explode

Examples

"We exploded the nuclear bomb"

Used in print

(Donald J. Plantz, Sweeney Squadron....)

Only one of the flight scored a direct hit and the rest blew_up jungle .

(Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)

Just like the balloon would go_up and you could sit all day and wish it would spring a leak or blow to_hell up and burn and nothing like that would happen .

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[ verb ] make large

Synonyms

enlarge magnify

Examples

"blow up an image"

Used in print

(Jim Harmon, "The Planet with No Nightmare," If,...)

It seemed almost a magnification of the Galaxy itself , of the Milky_Way , blown_up by some master photographer .

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[ verb ] exaggerate or make bigger

Examples

"The charges were inflated"

Related terms

increase puff_up

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[ verb ] fill with gas or air

Synonyms

inflate

Examples

"inflate a balloons"

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[ verb ] get very angry and fly into a rage

Examples

"The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question" "Spam makes me go ballistic"

Related terms

rage effusion

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[ verb ] to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"

Synonyms

puff_up puff_out puff

Related terms

swell puffer

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