Dictionary entry details
• BLOW UP (verb)
Meaning:
Cause to burst with a violent release of energy
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
explode; detonate; blow up; set off
Context example:
We exploded the nuclear bomb
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
change integrity (change in physical make-up)
Cause:
blow up; detonate; explode (burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blow up"):
fulminate (cause to explode violently and with loud noise)
dynamite (blow up with dynamite)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make large
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
blow up; enlarge; magnify
Context example:
blow up an image
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
increase (make bigger or more)
Domain category:
photography; picture taking (the act of taking and printing photographs)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
reduce (make smaller)
Meaning:
Get very angry and fly into a rage
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
lose one's temper; hit the roof; hit the ceiling; have kittens; have a fit; go ballistic; fly off the handle; flip one's wig; flip one's lid; throw a fit; blow one's stack; blow a fuse; blow up; combust
Context examples:
The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question / Spam makes me go ballistic
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
rage (feel intense anger)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Add details to
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
pad; embellish; aggrandise; aggrandize; embroider; lard; dramatise; dramatize; blow up
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
amplify; exaggerate; hyerbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blow up"):
glorify (cause to seem more splendid)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
Sentence example:
They won't blow up the story
Meaning:
Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
detonate; blow up; explode
Context examples:
the bomb detonated at noon / The Molotov cocktail exploded
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Exaggerate or make bigger
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
inflate; amplify; expand; blow up
Context example:
The charges were inflated
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
increase (make bigger or more)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blow up"):
puff up (make larger or distend)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Fill with gas or air
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
inflate; blow up
Context example:
inflate a balloons
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
expand (make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blow up"):
reflate (inflate again)
billow; heave; surge (rise and move, as in waves or billows)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
To swell or cause to enlarge,
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
puff out; puff up; puff; blow up
Context examples:
Her faced puffed up from the drugs / puffed out chests
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
intumesce; swell; swell up; tumefy; tumesce (expand abnormally)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
Did his feet blow up?
