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 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 Since the story blew up, the warden ordered at least two raids to confiscate anything brought in illegally, TMZ adds. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 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 One year ago, AI ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood blew up at the Zurich Summit when she was introduced to the industry. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 Sep. 2026 But her list kept growing in the Eighties, when Hoffs suddenly blew up into a wildly famous rock star. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 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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Georgia voters shattered the state’s midterm record for in-person early voting Thursday, another sign of intense interest in an election that will set the battleground state’s political trajectory.

— Greg Bluestein, AJC.com, 29 Oct. 2026
An Associated Press reporter in the southern city of Aden witnessed explosions that shattered windows at the airport building and nearby homes after Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree urged everyone at the airport to evacuate.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of shattered

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The Broncos, at 4-11, flew back to Denver as a snowstorm snarled travel across the country.

— Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2026
The prolonged war in Ukraine has also snarled global wheat trade through the Black Sea, compounding economic effects and undermining food security in vulnerable countries.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of snarled

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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