BLOWING UP Synonyms: 115 Similar and Opposite Words

blowing up

verb

present participle of blow up

as in flaring (up)

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

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as in exploding

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 shattering

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 cracking 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 blowing up Ripley was honored for a heroic effort to halt the advance of North Vietnamese forces by blowing up a crucial bridge in 1972. —

ABC News, 18 June 2026 Navarrette is blowing up right now. —

Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 17 June 2026 SpaceX has been blowing up Starship rockets left and right, and the space nerds seem to be cheering them on. —

Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026 At the time, teen powerhouses like Aaliyah, Brandy, and Monica were blowing up the charts and Interscope was hoping Mýa could be their own proverbial cash cow. —

Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 18 May 2026 About to hit rock bottom, Peter is therefore oblivious to the +44 numbers that are blowing up his phone, until the caller — a British clubber called Edison (the fantastic Kirby Howell-Baptiste) — arrives on his doorstep. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 May 2026 Now, the Swedish flatpack giant believes its long-elusive obsession is, at long last, blowing up. —

Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 14 May 2026 The wires are crossing, the cover stories are blowing up. —

Emily Longeretta, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026 Kimberly Shaw blowing up the apartment building at the end of season 4 is a core memory for fans. —

Andrea Lavinthal, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026

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Ukrainian drones now pummel industrial targets across Russia nightly, shutting down oil refineries, snarling logistics, and forcing airports to close for days at a time.

— Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
Laurie plays the snarling, villainous Richard Roper in the BBC and Prime Video’s big-budget adaptation of le Carré’s The Night Manager.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 June 2026