BLOW UP


Meaning of BLOW UP in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ verb ]

Date: 1536

transitive verb

1. : to build up or tout to an unreasonable extent

advertisers blowing up their products

2. : to rend apart, shatter, or destroy by explosion

3. : to fill up with a gas (as air)

blow up a balloon

4. : to make a photographic enlargement of

5. : to bring into existence by blowing of wind

it may blow up a storm

intransitive verb

1.

a. : explode

b. : to be disrupted or destroyed (as by explosion)

c. : to lose self-control ; especially : to become violently angry

2. : to become or come into being by or as if by blowing of wind

3.

a. : to become filled with a gas

b. : to become expanded to unreasonable proportions

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.