BLOWN UP Synonyms: 137 Similar and Opposite Words

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as in blown

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verb

past participle 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 demolished

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 trumpeted

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 blown up

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From crowd favorite cinnamon rolls and biscuits and gravy, it may have been blown up for its shrine of 1950s nostalgia, but customers stay for the consistently good southern food. —

Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2026 Having your entire concept of the space-time continuum blown up will do that to a person. —

Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026 There is never any way of knowing where these brackets can get blown up, and how, and by whom. —

Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026 Talk about them finding their way back to each other to get five minutes of happiness before it was all blown up by this accident. —

Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026 Have the Americans and the Israelis blown up empty buildings or those with the right people inside them? —

Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026 The idea that Golden State should have blown up its offensive identity to accommodate Kuminga is patently absurd. —

Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2026 Jim Tanimoto remembers a lot from his 102 years of life, but not who took the photograph blown up on his office wall. —

Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026 Williams had just blown up the Chargers’ last-gasp comeback attempt and charged over to his head coach, getting a massive bear hug from Vrabel. —

Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 5 Feb. 2026

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The first major nationwide protests against the Islamic regime began in June 2009, with demonstrators angered by the fraudulent presidential election.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2026
He was angered by the deaths and the damage to infrastructure and military capacities.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026