blow up - Similar and Opposite Words

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Verb

make large

Synonyms

• blow up
• enlarge
• magnify

More generic

• increase

Opposite / Antonyms

• reduce

Verb

to swell or cause to enlarge

Synonyms

• blow up
• puff
• puff out
• puff up

More generic

• intumesce
• swell
• swell up
• tumefy
• tumesce

Verb

fill with gas or air

Synonyms

• blow up
• inflate

More generic

• expand

More specific

• billow
• heave
• reflate
• surge

Verb

exaggerate or make bigger

Synonyms

• amplify
• blow up
• expand
• inflate

More generic

• increase

More specific

• puff up

Verb

burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction

Synonyms

• blow up
• detonate
• explode

Verb

cause to burst with a violent release of energy

Synonyms

• blow up
• detonate
• explode
• set off

More generic

• change integrity

More specific

• dynamite
• fulminate

Related

• blow up
• detonate
• explode

Verb

add details to

Synonyms

• aggrandise
• aggrandize
• blow up
• dramatise
• dramatize
• embellish
• embroider
• lard
• pad

More generic

• amplify
• exaggerate
• hyperbolise
• hyperbolize
• magnify
• overdraw
• overstate

More specific

• glorify

Verb

get very angry and fly into a rage

Synonyms

• blow a fuse
• blow one's stack
• blow up
• combust
• 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
• lose one's temper
• throw a fit

More generic

• rage

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