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vb. (en-simple pastblow up)
Usage examples of "blew up".
Was he going to just stand here while the American devils blew up one of his ships after another?
Indeed, Cuba itself might have initiated nuclear war when a US terrorist (Mongoose) team blew up a factory, killing 400 people according to Castro, at one of the most tense moments of the crisis, when the Cubans may have had their fingers on the button.
Dammed innocent fool of a girl blew up in my face, when I tried to warn her.
The ship hit the field hard enough to bury half of itself before it blew up.
I'd been awake since I was eleven or twelve and an ammunition ship blew up in Beirut harbor.
The compressed air blew up her decks, as if the magazines had caught fire.
For when a sudden black squall blew up, their mast splintered and broke and their boat capsized.
Her forward impeller room blew up as a graser stabbed straight into its generators, and the blast tore a hundred meters of armored hull into shredded wreckage.