blow up
Definition of blow up
transitive verb
1 : to build up or tout to an unreasonable extent advertisers blowing up their products
2 : to rend apart, shatter, or destroy by explosion
3 : to fill up with a gas (such as air) blow up a balloon
4 : to make a photographic enlargement of
5 : to bring into existence by blowing of wind it may blow up a storm
intransitive verb
1a : explodeb : to be disrupted or destroyed (as by explosion)c : to lose self-control; especially : to become violently angry
2 : to become or come into being by or as if by blowing of wind
3a : to become filled with a gasb : to become expanded to unreasonable proportions
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Examples of blow up in a Sentence
she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day
the building blew up because of a gas leak
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First Known Use of blow up
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