[blow up] vt (1536) 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" ~ vi 1 a: explode b: to be disrupted or destroyed (as by explosion) c: to lose self-control; esp: 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 (as air) b: to become expanded to unreasonable proportions