Blow up has 9 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
cause to burst with a violent release of energy
"We exploded the nuclear bomb"
make large
"blow up an image"
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"
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burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
"the bomb detonated at noon"
"The Molotov cocktail exploded"
exaggerate or make bigger
"The charges were inflated"
fill with gas or air
"inflate a balloons"
to swell or cause to enlarge
"Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
"puffed out chests"
To explode or be destroyed by explosion.