blow up

verb

1. 1

   make large

   blow up an image

2. 2

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

   puffed out chests

3. 3

   fill with gas or air

   inflate a balloons

4. 4

   exaggerate or make bigger

   The charges were inflated

5. 5

   burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction

   the bomb detonated at noon

   The Molotov cocktail exploded

6. 6

   cause to burst with a violent release of energy

   We exploded the nuclear bomb

7. 7

   add details to

8. 8

   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