'blow up' definitions:

Definition of 'blow up'

From: WordNet
verb
Cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb" [syn: explode, detonate, blow up, set off]
verb
Make large; "blow up an image" [syn: blow up, enlarge, magnify] [ant: reduce, scale down]
verb
Get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic" [syn: flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic]
verb
Add details to [syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise]
verb
Burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded" [syn: detonate, explode, blow up]
verb
Exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: inflate, blow up, expand, amplify]
verb
Fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons" [syn: inflate, blow up] [ant: deflate]
verb
To swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests" [syn: puff, puff up, blow up, puff out]

Synonyms of 'blow up'

From: Moby Thesaurus