Synonyms: blow up, magnify, enlarge
Definition: make large
Usage: blow up an image
Similar words: increase
Definition: make bigger or more
Usage: The boss finally increased her salary; The university increased the number of students it admitted
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: intumesce, tumefy, tumesce, swell, swell up
Definition: expand abnormally
Usage: The bellies of the starving children are swelling
Definition: fill with gas or air
Usage: inflate a balloons
Similar words: expand
Definition: make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity
Usage: expand the house by adding another wing
Synonyms: blow up, expand, amplify, inflate
Definition: exaggerate or make bigger
Usage: The charges were inflated
Similar words: increase
Definition: make bigger or more
Usage: The boss finally increased her salary; The university increased the number of students it admitted
Synonyms: explode, blow up, detonate, set off
Definition: cause to burst with a violent release of energy
Usage: We exploded the nuclear bomb
Similar words: change integrity
Definition: change in physical make-up
Synonyms: dramatise, dramatize, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, pad, embellish, embroider, lard
Definition: add details to
Similar words: exaggerate, amplify, magnify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate
Definition: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Usage: tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
Synonyms: 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