How to pronounce “blow up”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow,‎ up.
• (intransitive, also figuratively) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
• (transitive, also figuratively) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
• (transitive) To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.
• (transitive, figuratively) To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.
• (transitive) To enlarge or zoom in on.
• (intransitive) To fail disastrously.
• (intransitive, mathematics, said of a function) To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.
• (slang, intransitive) To become popular very quickly.
• (intransitive, slang) To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.
• (intransitive, slang) To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
• (transitive, dated) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.
• (transitive, dated) To excite.
• (transitive, dated) To scold violently, blow up at.
• (sports) To blow the whistle.
• (intransitive, cycling) To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
• (transitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.
• (intransitive, slang, of a device, machine, system, or establishment) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.
• (slang, colloquial) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.
• (intransitive, of a storm) To begin; to gather; to form.
• (intransitive, slang, dated) To use an intoxicating drug; to get high.

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