blow up

Verb

• to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
  • puffed out chests
    

• fill with gas or air
  • inflate a balloons
    

• exaggerate or make bigger
  • The charges were inflated
    

• burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
  • the bomb detonated at noon
    
  • The Molotov cocktail exploded
    

• add details to

• 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
    

• make large
  • blow up an image
    

• cause to burst with a violent release of energy
  • We exploded the nuclear bomb
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  puff , puff up , puff out , inflate , expand , amplify , detonate , explode , embroider , pad , lard , embellish , aggrandize , aggrandise , dramatize , dramatise , enlarge , magnify , set off
• Antonyms: 
  deflate , reduce , scale down