BLOW UP

verb Date: 1536 transitive verb to build up or tout to an unreasonable extent , to rend apart, shatter, or destroy by explosion, to fill up with a gas (as air) , to make a photographic enlargement of, to bring into existence by blowing of wind , intransitive verb 1. explode , to be disrupted or destroyed (as by explosion), to lose self-control, to become or come into being by or as if by blowing of wind, 3. to become filled with a gas, to become expanded to unreasonable proportions