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to destroy something or kill someone with a bomb, or to be destroyed or killed by a bomb: They threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met. He drove over a landmine and his Jeep blew up. Fewer examples. A small band of guerrillas has blown up a train in the mountains.
noun. blow· up ˈblō-ˌəp. plural blowups. Synonyms of blowup. : a blowing up: such as. a. : explosion. b. : an outburst of temper. c. : enlargement sense 2. d. : a catastrophic financial failure or collapse. Sometime in the next few years, a blowup is likely—one that could sink an already foundering economy. David Henry. blow-up. 2 of 3. adjective.
blow up. 1. phrasal verb. If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion. He was jailed for 45 years for trying to blow up a plane. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Their boat blew up as they slept. [VERB PARTICLE] [ Also VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb.
a copy of something that is made bigger: We need a blowup of this picture. (Definition of blowup from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of blowup. blowup. This seemingly innocent chang e results in a blowup of the number of recursive calls the algorithm makes. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
1. to explode or cause to explode. 2. ( tr) to increase the importance of (something): they blew the whole affair up. 3. ( intr) to come into consideration: we lived well enough before this thing blew up. 4. ( intr) to come into existence with sudden force: a storm had blown up.
verb. to explode or cause to explode. tr to increase the importance of (something) they blew the whole affair up. intr to come into consideration. we lived well enough before this thing blew up. intr to come into existence with sudden force. a storm had blown up. informal. to lose one's temper (with a person) informal. tr to reprimand (someone)
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English blow up phrasal verb 1 to destroy something, or to be destroyed, by an explosion The plane blew up in midair. blow something ↔ up Rebels attempted to blow up the bridge. 2 blow something ↔ up to fill something with air or gas Can you blow up this balloon?
To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion. We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived. More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines. Wiktionary. To inflate or fill with air. Blow up the balloons. Wiktionary.
Definition of blow-up noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
