Main entry: blow up, magnify, enlarge
Definition: make large
Usage: blow up an image
Main entry: blow up, puff, puff out, puff up
Definition: to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
Usage: puffed out chests
Definition: fill with gas or air
Usage: inflate a balloons
Main entry: blow up, expand, amplify, inflate
Definition: exaggerate or make bigger
Usage: The charges were inflated
Main entry: explode, blow up, detonate
Definition: burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
Usage: the bomb detonated at noon; The Molotov cocktail exploded
Main entry: explode, blow up, detonate, set off
Definition: cause to burst with a violent release of energy
Usage: We exploded the nuclear bomb
Main entry: dramatise, dramatize, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, pad, embellish, embroider, lard
Definition: add details to
Main entry: fly off the handle, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, combust, blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, have a fit, have kittens, go ballistic, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, throw a fit
Definition: get very angry and fly into a rage
Usage: The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question; Spam makes me go ballistic