blow up

How to sign: add details to

Similiar / Same: pad, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, embroider, lard, dramatize, dramatise

Categories: amplify, exaggerate, hyerbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate

Within this category: glorify

blow up

How to sign: fill with gas or air
"inflate a balloons";

Similiar / Same: inflate

Categories: expand

Within this category: billow, reflate

blowup

How to sign: an unrestrained expression of emotion

Similiar / Same: effusion, outburst, ebullition, gush

Categories: expression, manifestation, reflection, reflexion

Within this category: acting out, cry, explosion, flare

blow up

How to sign: 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";

Similiar / Same: flip one's lid, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic, combust

Categories: rage

blowup

How to sign: a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction

Similiar / Same: explosion, detonation

Categories: discharge

Within this category: airburst, backfire, big bang, blast, blowback, fragmentation, inflation

blow up

How to sign: cause to explode
"We exploded the nuclear bomb";

Similiar / Same: explode, detonate, set off

Categories: change integrity

Within this category: dynamite, fulminate

blow up

How to sign: to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"

Similiar / Same: puff out, puff up, puff

Categories: intumesce, swell, swell up, tumefy, tumesce