Verb
1. explode
2. detonate, set off, change integrity, enlarge
3. magnify, increase, flip one's lid
4. throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic, rage, embroider
5. pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, dramatize, dramatise, overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify, inflate
6. expand, amplify, increase, inflate
7. expand, puff
8. puff up, puff out, swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
| Foreign Language Equivalents of 'blow up' | ||||||
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| Language | Equivalent | Language | Equivalent | |||
| French | Spanish | |||||