BLOW UP Definition & Meaning

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blow 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)
informal.
tr to enlarge the size or detail of (a photograph)

noun

an explosion
informal.
an enlarged photograph or part of a photograph
informal.
a fit of temper or argument
informal.
Also calledblowing up a reprimand

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"They go in, blow up the installations, dismantle all of the equipment, under American supervision and carried out by America," Netanyahu explained.

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Now when you strip away the procedures and the calculations, it’s clear what’s happening: Senate Republicans are pushing through a tax cut for the wealthy that will blow up the country’s debt.

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They were then rapidly decompressed to 25,000ft in three seconds to see if they would blow up.

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“None of us really went into this expecting it to blow up in the way that it did,” Mansour said.

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Geopolitically, blowing up our alliances and the global economy in the name of “self-sufficiency” is unfathomably idiotic.

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