BLEW UP Synonyms: 117 Similar and Opposite Words

blew up

verb

Definition of blew up next

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 One of those blew up on its landing attempt while another was purposefully expended to get its payload to a higher orbital insertion. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2026 Their chemistry blew up on the superb 2024 album The Collective, her most startling — and fun — project in years. —

Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2026 But the controversy blew up when on closing night, some prize-winners used their acceptance speeches to voice support for Palestine and Gaza. —

Leo Barraclough, Variety, 3 Mar. 2026 Things finally blew up for the app in the second to last episode, with founder Whitney (Max Minghella) in free fall and Harper primed for victory. —

Meg Walters, Glamour, 2 Mar. 2026 Some lawmakers see the influx of cash as a Band-Aid and want an audit to determine why the system blew up. —

CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026 The issue blew up spectacularly as the BBC failed to edit the words out of its BAFTA broadcast, which runs with a two-hour delay. —

Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026 Thirteen months after an Army helicopter collided in midair with an American Airlines flight landing at Reagan National Airport, the Pentagon blew up a good bipartisan deal on Tuesday that would prevent such an accident from happening again. —

Editorial Board, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2026 The storm that blew up in the Atlantic Ocean over the weekend broke records for snowfall in some parts of the Northeast, according to records from the National Weather Service and its parent agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. —

Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026

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Per The New York Times, lawyers told Judge Arun Subramanian in court on Monday that Live Nation and the DOJ settled on Thursday, which angered Subramanian as the judge hadn’t been briefed on the settlement Friday.

— Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 9 Mar. 2026
Vladimir, angered by this revelation because Cynthia is supposed to be sober, tackles him to the ground.

— Megan McCluskey, Time, 5 Mar. 2026