blow up

v. fill with air (e.g. a ballon); enlarge; exaggerate; lose one's temper; cause something to explode; explode

n. enlargement of a picture or photograph; (Informal) outburst of anger, angry argument

adj. inflatable, able to be inflated

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Verb
1. cause to explode; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
(synonym) explode, detonate, set off
(hypernym) change integrity
(hyponym) fulminate
(cause) explode, burst
(derivation) explosion, detonation, blowup
2. make large; "blow up an image"
(synonym) enlarge, magnify
(antonym) reduce, scale down
(hypernym) increase
(derivation) enlargement, blowup, magnification
(classification) photography, picture taking
3. 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"
(synonym) flip one's lid, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic
(hypernym) rage
(derivation) effusion, gush, outburst, blowup, ebullition
4. add details to
(synonym) embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, dramatize, dramatise
(hypernym) overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
(hyponym) glorify
5. exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
(synonym) inflate, expand, amplify
(hypernym) increase
(hyponym) puff up
6. fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
(synonym) inflate
(hypernym) expand
(hyponym) reflate
7. to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
(synonym) puff, puff up, puff out
(hypernym) swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

Rzecz. powiększenie

become angry, lose your temper If you criticize Al, he'll blow up. He's very sensitive.