Synonym: aggrandise, aggrandize, amplify, blow a fuse, blow one's stack, combust, detonate, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, enlarge, expand, explode, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, inflate, lard, lose one's temper, magnify, pad, puff, puff out, puff up, set off, throw a fit. Similar words: follow up, show up, grow up, throw up, blow out, blow off, blow over, draw up. Meaning: v. 1. cause to burst with a violent release of energy 2. make large 3. get very angry and fly into a rage 4. add details to 5. burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;"the bomb detonated at noon" 6. exaggerate or make bigger 7. fill with gas or air 8. to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs".
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31. Not only could be, but would be, and the whole thing would blow up in my face.
32. Many of the known asteroids are small enough to blow up on entering the atmosphere.
33. They roll grenades down floors of cinemas and blow up women and kids: does your heart bleed about that, Trevor?
34. The gasman had told us it would blow up and had stuck on a waning sign to remind us.
35. Four young girls are hanged for smuggling dynamite to blow up an Auschwitz crematorium.
36. But I also fear that this encryption stuff is so powerful it could blow up in my face.
37. Having opted for a formation that he thought would beat Leicester, David O Leary saw it blow up in his face.
38. On Jan. 24, 1990, a man carrying a bomb died while attempting to blow up the Istanbul stock exchange.
39. We also used it to blow up bunkers and similar things.
40. On June 8, 1910, Post was back to blow up 171 2-pound charges at three-minute intervals.
41. Kristin knew that if anyone found out, the whole thing could blow up in her face.
42. Problems are like balloons. We let them unnecessarily blow up. RVM 
43. But people do it; then things blow up; then people are careful for a while; then people get complacent.
44. Urban violence and civil unrest were mushrooming like small bombs threatening to blow up the machine from within.
45. Blow up an enlargement, most frequently of a graphic image or photograph.
46. I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. Erma Bombeck
47. It was kind of funny watching the presentation blow up in Harry's face.
48. Auditors some-times miss big potential problems that blow up in the face of bondholders.
49. An attempt was made to blow up a police chief.
50. Guy Fawkes plotted to blow up parliament.
51. Commando: This is GDI's specialized unit. Can tear through enemy infantry and blow up buildings.
52. They try to blow up marketing myths that debilitate companies.
53. Punch through the dirt,(sentencedict.com) collect the gold and blow up brick or enemies.
54. You have to blow up an air mattress first before ou can use it.
55. The would-be mass murderers planned to blow up the new King James I and his entire parliament in assembly at the Palace of Westminster on 5 November.
56. You are ready to blow up and your stress level has gone into over drive.
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57. He was edgy and irritable. It was conceivable that he could blow up.
58. Who knew that by 2011 the old Protestant demonisation of Guy Fawkes would be virtually forgotten and his attempt to blow up the mother of parliaments reclaimed as a great democratic act?
59. Winds blow up the hair, and the wind bell in the room rings.
60. The finalecomes with Little Zhanghelping blow up a trainload of Japanesesoldiersand receiving a cherished reward:a pistol with which to kill more Japanese.