Definitions
1.verbTo explode or be destroyed by explosion."Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?"
2.verbTo cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion."More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines."
3.verbTo inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump."For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed."
4.verbTo enlarge or zoom in."Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces."
5.verbTo fail disastrously.
6.verbTo become popular very quickly."This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV."
7.verbTo suddenly get very angry."Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant."
8.verbTo become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
9.verbTo inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up."to blow someone up with flattery"
10.verbTo excite."to blow up a contention"
11.verbTo scold violently."to blow up a person for some offence"
12.verbTo blow the whistle.
13.verbTo succumb to the oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
14.verbTo bombard with a large number of telephone calls, texts, etc.
15.verbTo cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation"Don't go in there...I really blew it up."