Definitions for blow up
blow up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. explode, detonate, blow up, set offverb

   cause to burst with a violent release of energy

   "We exploded the nuclear bomb"

2. blow up, enlarge, magnifyverb

   make large

   "blow up an image"

3. flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballisticverb

   get very angry and fly into a rage

   "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"

4. embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatiseverb

   add details to

5. detonate, explode, blow upverb

   burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"

   "The Molotov cocktail exploded"

6. inflate, blow up, expand, amplifyverb

   exaggerate or make bigger

   "The charges were inflated"

7. inflate, blow upverb

   fill with gas or air

   "inflate a balloons"

8. puff, puff up, blow up, puff outverb

   to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"

   "puffed out chests"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blow upverb

   To explode or be destroyed by explosion.

2. blow upverb

   To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.

3. blow upverb

   To inflate or fill with air.

4. blow upverb

   To enlarge or zoom in.

5. blow upverb

   To fail disastrously.

6. blow upverb

   To become popular very quickly.

7. blow upverb

   To suddenly get very angry.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blow up

   "Blow up" is a colloquial, versatile term that can be used in a variety of contexts, however it generally denotes a rapid, significant, and often disruptive increase or growth. It could refer to physically inflating something (like blowing up a balloon), causing an explosion (such as blowing up a building), or intensifying a situation or argument. In recent years, it also refers to achieving sudden fame or attention, usually on social media (as in, a post or photo "blowing up" with likes or shares). The exact definition depends on the context in which it is used.

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. blow up

   1. [scientific computation] To become unstable. Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will soon overflow or at least go nonlinear. 2. Syn. blow out.

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of blow up in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of blow up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of blow up in a Sentence

1. Linda Brown:

   I couldn't move or speak. I felt paralyzed, he flipped me over and sexually assaulted me, i felt like a rag doll and like a real-life blow-up doll for him.

2. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar:

   We are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics, we will have equality and in social and economic rights, we will have inequality. We must remove this contradiction or else who suffer from this inequality will blow up the structure.

3. East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway:

   There (were) two options: We either detonate those tanks, or they detonate themselves, yes, harmful chemicals went into the air. I am truly sorry, but that is the only option we had. If we didn’t do that, then they were going to blow up, and we were going to have shrapnel all across this town.

4. Wilson Witzel:

   If it were with the authorization of the United Nations, in other parts of the world, we could send a missile there to blow up those people.

5. Edmund S. Morgan:

   Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=blow up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Blow_Up
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#BlowUp