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 But last year, their relationship blew up amid a turf war over CPS employees. — Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026 Israeli forces occupying the village of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah in southern Lebanon also blew up buildings including a municipal building and a children’s nursery, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported. — ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 How The Shards original adaptation blew up at HBO — and ended up in Ryan Murphy’s hands; THR looks at all the actors lobbying to star in the X-Men reboot. — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026 To Jones’ point, Uwazurike single-handedly blew up one run-sweep to Harvey in a 9-on-7 period, arriving in the backfield the near second Harvey even touched the ball. — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2026 Linebacker Daiyan Henley blew up a carry from running back Kimani Vidal. — Daniel Popper, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026 How about this social media post from NASCAR that absolutely blew up the internet over the weekend? — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 As their last retreating act, Hussein’s soldiers blew up some 700 Kuwaiti oil wells, painting the sky black with smoke and igniting unchecked fires that burned for 10 months. — Wuft News, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026 Specifically in New York, a Swedish candy store called Bon Bon blew up and had influencers creating ASMR taste test videos. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026

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The two women who won jury trials in their lawsuits against the county are angered that the county has opted to appeal.

— Sean Emery, Oc Register, 12 Aug. 2026
Public backlash is prompting San Diego to reopen 13 restrooms in Mission Bay Park this Friday after a six-week closure during the heart of summer that angered city residents and tourists.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026

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Prediction market platforms have exploded in popularity in recent years, facing condemnation from lawmakers and others who argue the sites commodify human suffering and, in some cases, incentivize wrongdoing.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
For example, shares of medical platform Doximity exploded earlier this month when CEO Jeffrey Tangney said that the company's AI search product is pulling in revenues-per-search that are 10 times what the tool costs to run.

— Tobias Burns, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of exploded

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Twin earthquakes in June shattered Venezuela’s coastal state of La Guaira, transforming a Caribbean playground into a landscape of ruin and grief.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
The east Charlotte shooting left church and school bus windows shattered and children crying.

— Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of shattered

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Here, Lauren Houser, vice president of marketing at cleaning solutions company Zep in Atlanta, Georgia, highlights six common hacks that really aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.

— Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 8 Aug. 2026
Being at the top of your game and winning on the biggest stages isn’t always all it's cracked up to be.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026

Definition of cracked up

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Meanwhile, the tech industry's multitrillion-dollar spending spree on data centers and AI infrastructure has snarled supply chains.

— Matt Peterson,Kate Rooney, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
After the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic, followed by the writers’ and actors’ strikes that snarled the production pipeline, many industry observers feared that Zoomers were a lost demographic.

— Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of snarled

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Trump in a Truth Social post said the United States' naval blockade of Iranian ports remains in effect and that mines in the Strait of Hormuz had been removed or detonated.

— Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026
The older Green Lantern taunted the alien so much, that the creature detonated itself, blowing a hole into the side of the jail.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of detonated

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When Rigo arrived and asked about the minivan, he was shown a video of the crime scene being picked up and smashed to pieces.

— Lauren Clark, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
At a red light, one officer rushed out of the patrol car, smashed the driver’s-side window and pulled the driver to the ground.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026

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Lenti Ponsetto, after 18 years leading DePaul athletics—and 42 years overall at the private Big East school—announced her retirement in June 2020, just six weeks after Conviser filed her initial suit in Cook County court.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Trump’s White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced her resignation shortly after the airplane-swap incident.

— Marlow Stern, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026