BLEW UP Synonyms: 117 Similar and Opposite Words

blew up

verb

past tense of blow up

as in angered

to become very angry she blew up at everybody after a very long and very bad day

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as in exploded

to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure the building blew up because of a gas leak

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as in shattered

to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive blew up the biggest rocks and then cleared them away

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as in cracked up

to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively the advertisement blows the new soda up to the point where I half expected to be transported to a higher level of consciousness

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Recent Examples of blew up And Trump’s decision to back Ken Paxton in Texas blew up spectacularly for Republicans. — Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026 Previously committed to Texas State, the Iowa Colony standout saw his recruitment blew up at the start of his senior season. — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Nov. 2026 That mistake, and may others made in that draft and the ones that followed, eventually blew up in the team’s face. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 1 Nov. 2026 And when Wednesday blew up in 2022, Ortega felt profoundly disoriented. — Alice Robb, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2026 Except one of their newest members just accidentally blew up their entire case and rationalization for it. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The poetry stopped this week when CoreWeave's debt yields blew up to over 15%, where the rate of return on CoreWeave's spend is too low to justify the build. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2026 Clarkson accused staff at Art of Play in Brooklyn Heights of treating her poorly, which blew up on social media. — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026 Hublot x Jeff Koons Hublot and Jeff Koons blew up the Classic Fusion in September. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026

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The trail’s California Environmental Quality Act exemption has angered an array of people.

— Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
Soon, other aggrieved groups—farmers, trade unionists, climate activists, yellow-vest protesters angered by rising costs—joined in, and the demonstrations that followed quickly became some of France’s most widespread and explosive since 1968.

— Maurice Samuels, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026

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Bystander video showed a fiery crater gouged into Military Trail, a major highway, with the pavement buckled and shattered around the wreckage.

— Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026
Still, the state has shattered early voting records with a more diverse electorate and stronger turnout in left-leaning jurisdictions.

— Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of shattered

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One person died and two others were taken to hospitals Thursday after a crash involving a big rig that snarled traffic on Highway 99 in Elk Grove.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Analysts said that Democrats who proposed data center moratoriums won gubernatorial races in Texas, Georgia, and Ohio, raising fears that projects could get snarled in regulation or blocked by politicians.

— Kif Leswing, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026

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The bomb detonated close to Reggane was four times more powerful than that used on Hiroshima.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2026
An operation in Kenscoff In the mists of the steep hills that ring southern Port-au-Prince, CNN saw one Task Force operation where helicopters manned by foreign contractors assaulted gang positions, and drones detonated amid the clatter of gunfire.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026

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When they were smashed into molecules consisting of two ordinary hydrogen atoms, the muonic atoms implanted themselves within those molecules and assimilated one of their hydrogens.

— George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2026
In Frankfurt, police said Molotov cocktails were thrown at emergency personnel and shop windows were smashed.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of smashed

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Abrams announced this week a deluxe version of Daughter from Hell.

— William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2026
Active Sideguard Assist 3 is the newer system announced for Daimler's European-market vehicles, while North American Cascadias receive their own Detroit Assurance configuration.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2026