blow up
verb
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause to burst with a violent release of energy
We exploded the nuclear bomb
Types & categories
- change integrity hypernym
- fulminate hyponym
- dynamite hyponym
Related & opposite
- detonate causes
- burst derivation
- detonation derivation
- detonator derivation
- explosion derivation
- detonative derivation
Sense 2 verb
make large
blow up an image
Types & categories
- increase hypernym
Related & opposite
- scale down antonym
- blowup derivation
- enlarger derivation
- magnifier derivation
- magnitude derivation
- magnification derivation
- photography domain topic
Sense 3 verb
get very angry and fly into a rage
The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
Types & categories
- rage hypernym
Related & opposite
- effusion derivation
Sense 4 verb
add details to
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- aggrandizement derivation
- embellishment derivation
- dramatic event derivation
Sense 5 verb
burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
the bomb detonated at noon
Related & opposite
- explosion derivation
- detonative derivation
Sense 6 verb
exaggerate or make bigger
The charges were inflated
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- expansive derivation
Sense 7 verb
fill with gas or air
inflate a balloons
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- deflate antonym
- inflation derivation
- inflater derivation
- inflatable derivation
Sense 8 verb
to swell or cause to enlarge,
Her faced puffed up from the drugs
Types & categories
- swell up hypernym
Related & opposite
- globefish derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | causes | Related & opposite | detonate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | burst |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | detonation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | detonator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | explosion |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | detonative |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change integrity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | fulminate |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | dynamite |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | scale down |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | blowup |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | enlarger |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | magnifier |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | magnitude |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | magnification |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | photography |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | increase |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | effusion |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | rage |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | aggrandizement |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | embellishment |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatic event |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | overstate |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | glorify |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | explosion |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | detonative |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | expansive |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | increase |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | puff up |
| 7 | antonym | Related & opposite | deflate |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflation |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflater |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | inflatable |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | expand |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | reflate |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | surge |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | globefish |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | swell up |