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English Dictionary: blow up |
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3 results for blow up |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- blow up
- v
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We
exploded the nuclear bomb"
Synonym(s): explode, detonate, blow up, set off
- make large; "blow up an image"
Synonym(s): blow up, enlarge, magnify Antonym(s): reduce, scale down
- get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"
Synonym(s): flip one's lid, blow up, 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
- add details to
Synonym(s): embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon"; "The Molotov cocktail exploded"
Synonym(s): detonate, explode, blow up
- exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
Synonym(s): inflate, blow up, expand, amplify
- fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
Synonym(s): inflate, blow up Antonym(s): deflate
- to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests"
Synonym(s): puff, puff up, blow up, puff out
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From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: |
blow up vi. 1. [scientific computation] To become unstable.
Suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it will
soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}. 2. Syn. {blow out}.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: |
blow up
1. Of a scientific computation: to become unstable. It
suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it
will soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}.
2. {blow out}.
[{Jargon File}]
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