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to destroy something or kill someone with a bomb, or to be destroyed or killed by a bomb: They threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met. He drove over a landmine and his Jeep blew up. Fewer examples. A small band of guerrillas has blown up a train in the mountains.
adjective. ˈblō-ˌəp. : designed to be inflated before use : inflatable. Here on the south coast the unusually warm seas have been filled with the inflatable vessels … : blow-up kayaks, dinghies and paddleboards. Ian Burrell.
blow up. 1. phrasal verb B1. If someone blows something up or if it blows up, it is destroyed by an explosion. He was jailed for 45 years for trying to blow up a plane. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Their boat blew up as they slept. [VERB PARTICLE] [ Also VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B2.
1. to explode or cause to explode. 2. ( tr) to increase the importance of (something): they blew the whole affair up. 3. ( intr) to come into consideration: we lived well enough before this thing blew up. 4. ( intr) to come into existence with sudden force: a storm had blown up.
a copy of something that is made bigger: We need a blowup of this picture. (Definition of blowup from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of blowup. blowup. This seemingly innocent chang e results in a blowup of the number of recursive calls the algorithm makes. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
A blow-up is a photograph or picture that has been made bigger. [informal] ...yellowing blow-ups of James Dean. 2. countable noun [oft N with] A blow-up is a sudden fierce argument. [informal]
Noun. Filter. verb. (intransitive) To explode or be destroyed by explosion. Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff? Wiktionary. To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion. We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.
Blow up definition: . See examples of BLOW UP used in a sentence.
Definition of blow-up noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definition of blow up phrasal verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
