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Blow up

Verb

Definiciones

1.VerbUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow,‎ up.
"See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.; Trying blowing up it at an angle instead of directly across it."
2.VerbTo explode or be destroyed by explosion.
"Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?"
3.VerbTo cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
"We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.; More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines."
4.VerbTo inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
"For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed."
5.VerbTo represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
6.VerbTo enlarge or zoom in on.
"Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces."
7.VerbTo fail disastrously.
8.VerbTo increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
"The quantity 1/x blows up as x approaches zero."
9.VerbTo become popular very quickly.
"This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV."
10.VerbTo suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
"Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant."
11.VerbTo become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
12.VerbTo inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.
"to blow someone up with flattery"
13.VerbTo excite.
"to blow up a contention"
14.VerbTo scold violently, blow up at.
15.VerbTo blow the whistle.
16.VerbTo succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
17.VerbTo overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
"blow up the spot;   blow up someone's spot; Be cool! Keep it on the down low. Don't blow up my spot!; blow up someone's phone; I had to mute the notifications for that group text. Those hooligans kept blowing up my phone."
18.VerbTo overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.
"blow up the spot;   blow up someone's spot; Be cool! Keep it on the down low. Don't blow up my spot!"
19.VerbTo bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
"blow up someone's phone; I had to mute the notifications for that group text. Those hooligans kept blowing up my phone."
20.VerbTo be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
"There were so many incoming enemy planes that our monitoring and notification system blew up before the base was even able to respond.; Damn, my spot blew up. Time to find the next one.; one's phone is blowing up; I had to mute the notifications for that group text. My phone kept blowing up every day."
21.VerbTo be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.
"Damn, my spot blew up. Time to find the next one."
22.VerbTo receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.
"one's phone is blowing up; I had to mute the notifications for that group text. My phone kept blowing up every day."
23.VerbTo cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
"Don't go in there...I really blew it up."
24.VerbTo begin; to gather; to form.
"A storm is blowing up in the north."
25.VerbTo use an intoxicating drug; to get high.
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