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blow something up1Cause something to explode: they blew the plane up on the ground with dynamite...- Because you're not just bombing people or blowing things up or destroying enemy forces in large formations.
- The militants are believed to have executed the victims, stolen computers and other property from the consulate, before detonating a bomb to blow it up.
- Passengers were released before the planes were blown up.
Synonyms explode, bomb, blast, destroy; detonate, blitz 2Inflate something: a small pump for blowing up balloons...- Auto inflation is a technique where a special balloon is blown up by the child using their nose.
- We blow balloons up for them, do some magic and just remind them what it's like to play again.
- And if you're short on cash, you can blow them up and make balloon animals to sell on the street.
Synonyms inflate, pump up, fill up, swell, enlarge, distend, expand, puff up, balloon, aerate 2.1Exaggerate the importance of something: it was a domestic tiff which had been blown up out of all proportion...- It would have been easy to overstate these contexts and blow them up disproportionately, but the film just drops hints and reminders here and there to keep the focus on his own mind.
- Anything that people are going to want to read they blow up.
- But, the media does have a tendency to look at sales as much (perhaps more) than they look at truth, and so the media has a tendency to blow up the negative side of the athlete and lay low on the positive side.
Synonyms exaggerate, overstate, overemphasize, hyperbolize, overstress, overestimate, magnify, amplify; embroider, colour, heighten, expand on, aggrandize, dress up, touch up, embellish, elaborate, gild 3Enlarge a photograph or text: I blew the picture up on a colour photocopier...- Bits of the video had been blown up and made into photographs.
- You also have the choice of leaving the originals as small prints beside the new enlargement, or blowing the old ones up to 10 ‘x8 ‘as well.
- Use the crop tool to salvage something usable from your obscured photo, and the enlarge wizard to blow it up to a reasonable size.
Synonyms enlarge, magnify, expand, extend, increase in size, make larger, make bigger See parent entry: blow |