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BLOW UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make large
Example:
blow up an image
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
Derivation:
blowup (a photographic print that has been enlarged)
Sense 2
Meaning:
To swell or cause to enlarge
Example:
puffed out chests
Synonyms:
blow up; puff; puff out; puff up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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?
Sense 3
Meaning:
Fill with gas or air
Example:
inflate a balloons
Synonyms:
blow up; inflate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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
Sense 4
Meaning:
Exaggerate or make bigger
Example:
The charges were inflated
Synonyms:
amplify; blow up; expand; inflate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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
Sense 5
Meaning:
Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
Example:
The Molotov cocktail exploded
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 6
Meaning:
Cause to burst with a violent release of energy
Example:
We exploded the nuclear bomb
Synonyms:
blow up; detonate; explode; set off
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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
Derivation:
blowup (a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction)
Sense 7
Meaning:
Add details to
Synonyms:
aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; 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
Sense 8
Meaning:
Get very angry and fly into a rage
Example:
Spam makes me go ballistic
Synonyms:
blow a fuse; blow one's stack; blow up; 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
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "blow up" is one way to...):
rage (feel intense anger)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
blowup (an unrestrained expression of emotion)
