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English verb: blow up | |||
| 1. | blow up (change) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | ||
| Samples | We exploded the nuclear bomb. | ||
| Synonyms | detonate, explode, set off | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change integrity | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | dynamite, fulminate | ||
| Cause | blow up, detonate, explode | ||
| 2. | blow up (change) make large | ||
| Samples | Blow up an image. | ||
| Synonyms | enlarge, magnify | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | increase | ||
| Domain category | photography, picture taking | ||
| Antonyms | scale down, reduce | ||
| 3. | blow up (emotion) get very angry and fly into a rage | ||
| Samples | The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question. Spam makes me go ballistic. | ||
| Synonyms | blow a fuse, blow one's stack, combust, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rage | ||
| 4. | blow up (communication) add details to | ||
| Examples | They won't blow up the story | ||
| Synonyms | aggrandise, aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something with something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | glorify | ||
| 5. | blow up (change) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | ||
| Samples | The bomb detonated at noon. The Molotov cocktail exploded. | ||
| Synonyms | detonate, explode | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s | ||
| 6. | blow up (change) exaggerate or make bigger | ||
| Samples | The charges were inflated. | ||
| Synonyms | amplify, expand, inflate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | increase | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | puff up | ||
| 7. | blow up (change) fill with gas or air | ||
| Samples | Inflate a balloons. | ||
| Synonyms | inflate | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | expand | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | billow, heave, reflate, surge | ||
| Antonyms | deflate | ||
| 8. | blow up (change) to swell or cause to enlarge, | ||
| Samples | Her faced puffed up from the drugs. Puffed out chests. | ||
| Examples | Did his feet blow up? | ||
| Synonyms | puff, puff out, puff up | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce | ||
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