Definition of 'blow up'
3. phrasal verb
4. phrasal verb
[informal]
5. phrasal verb
6. phrasal verb
7. See also blow-up
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blow up in American English
1.
to fill with or as with air or gas
2.
to burst or explode
4.
to enlarge (a photograph)
5.
to exaggerate (an incident, rumor, etc.)
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blow up in American English
a.
to come into being
A storm suddenly blew up
b.
to explode
The ship blew up
c.
to cause to explode
to blow up a bridge
d.
to exaggerate; enlarge
He blew up his own role in his account of the project
e. informal
to lose one's temper
When he heard she had quit school, he blew up
f.
to fill with air; inflate
to blow up a tire
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blow up
British English: blow up
/bləʊ ʌp/ VERB
If someone blows something up, or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion.
Their boat blew up.
- American English: blow up /bloʊ ˈʌp/
- Arabic: يَنْفُخُ
- Brazilian Portuguese: explodir
- Chinese: 爆炸
- Croatian: eksplodirati
- Czech: vybouchnout
- Danish: sprænge i luften
- Dutch: opblazen
- European Spanish: estallar
- Finnish: räjähtää
- French: exploser
- German: explodieren
- Greek: ανατινάζω
- Italian: gonfiare
- Japanese: 爆破する
- Korean: 폭발하다
- Norwegian: sprenge
- Polish: wysadzić w powietrze
- European Portuguese: explodir
- Romanian: a exploda
- Russian: взорвать
- Latin American Spanish: estallar
- Swedish: explodera
- Thai: ระเบิดทำลาย
- Turkish: havaya uçurmak
- Ukrainian: підривати
- Vietnamese: nổ tung
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