- berating, blowing up - a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him"
--1 is a kind of rebuke, reproof, reproval, reprehension, reprimand
- explode, detonate, blow up, set off - cause to explode; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
--1 is one way to change integrity
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun blowup1
Somebody ----s something
- blow up, enlarge, magnify - make large; "blow up an image"
--2 is one way to increase
Antonyms: reduce, scale down
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun blowup3
Somebody ----s something
- flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballistic - get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"
--3 is one way to rage
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun blowup2
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise - add details to
--4 is one way to overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
Sample sentence:
They won't blow up the story
- inflate, blow up, expand, amplify - exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
--5 is one way to increase
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- inflate, blow up - fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons"
--6 is one way to expand
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- puff, puff up, blow up, puff out - to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
--7 is one way to swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce
Sample sentence:
Did his feet blow up?