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blow up
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Wikipedia
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Blow Up is a club night that was founded in the early 1990s by promoter and DJ Paul Tunkin at a North London pub called "The Laurel Tree". The night quickly became the centre of the emerging Britpop scene in Camden attracting long queues of people eager ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cause to explode; "We exploded the nuclear bomb" [syn: explode , detonate , set off ] make large; "blow up an image" [syn: enlarge , magnify ] [ant: reduce ] get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To explode or be destroyed by explosion. 2 (context transitive English) To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion. 3 (context transitive ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"explode," 1590s, from blow (v.1) + up (adv.). As a noun, it is recorded from 1809 in the sense "outburst, quarrel." Meaning "enlargement from a photograph" is attested by 1945. Old English had an adjective upablawan "upblown," used of a volcano, etc.
Usage examples of blow up.
First, the Klingons blow up the entire Levanian ship, just to stop us from discovering intelligence about this Klingon-Jem'Hadar training camp, but they don't destroy the very log that will tell us!
Did you ever think that maybe he's holding Alexander hostage, or he's threatening to blow up the station if Worf doesn't cooperate?
I had a sorcerer of mine blow up a watchstation in South Adrilankha, and leave messages all over it that looked like they'd done it.