Meaning of "blow up" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF BLOW UP

blow up

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BLOW UP

Blow up is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb blow up in English.

WHAT DOES BLOW UP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Blow up

Blow up, Blow-up or Blowup may refer to: ▪ Explosion ▪ Blowup, a 1966 film by Michelangelo Antonioni ▪ Blow-up and Other Stories, a short story collection by Julio Cortázar ▪ Blow Up, the Italy-based music magaine.

Definition of blow up in the English dictionary

The first definition of blow up in the dictionary is to explode or cause to explode. Other definition of blow up is to increase the importance of. Blow up is also to come into consideration.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BLOW UP

PRESENT

Present

I blow up

you blow up

he/she/it blows up

we blow up

you blow up

they blow up

Present continuous

I am blowing up

you are blowing up

he/she/it is blowing up

we are blowing up

you are blowing up

they are blowing up

Present perfect

I have blown up

you have blown up

he/she/it has blown up

we have blown up

you have blown up

they have blown up

Present perfect continuous

I have been blowing up

you have been blowing up

he/she/it has been blowing up

we have been blowing up

you have been blowing up

they have been blowing up

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I blew up

you blew up

he/she/it blew up

we blew up

you blew up

they blew up

Past continuous

I was blowing up

you were blowing up

he/she/it was blowing up

we were blowing up

you were blowing up

they were blowing up

Past perfect

I had blown up

you had blown up

he/she/it had blown up

we had blown up

you had blown up

they had blown up

Past perfect continuous

I had been blowing up

you had been blowing up

he/she/it had been blowing up

we had been blowing up

you had been blowing up

they had been blowing up

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will blow up

you will blow up

he/she/it will blow up

we will blow up

you will blow up

they will blow up

Future continuous

I will be blowing up

you will be blowing up

he/she/it will be blowing up

we will be blowing up

you will be blowing up

they will be blowing up

Future perfect

I will have blown up

you will have blown up

he/she/it will have blown up

we will have blown up

you will have blown up

they will have blown up

Future perfect continuous

I will have been blowing up

you will have been blowing up

he/she/it will have been blowing up

we will have been blowing up

you will have been blowing up

they will have been blowing up

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would blow up

you would blow up

he/she/it would blow up

we would blow up

you would blow up

they would blow up

Conditional continuous

I would be blowing up

you would be blowing up

he/she/it would be blowing up

we would be blowing up

you would be blowing up

they would be blowing up

Conditional perfect

I would have blow up

you would have blow up

he/she/it would have blow up

we would have blow up

you would have blow up

they would have blow up

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been blowing up

you would have been blowing up

he/she/it would have been blowing up

we would have been blowing up

you would have been blowing up

they would have been blowing up

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you blow up
we let´s blow up
you blow up

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to blow up

Past participle

blown up

Present Participle

blowing up

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «BLOW UP»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «blow up» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of blow up

blow a fuse · boil over · broaden · burst · crack up · detonate · enlarge · erupt · explode · fly off the handle · go ballistic · go crook · go off · go off the deep end · go up the wall · heighten · hit the roof · lose it · lose the plot · magnify · rage · see red · shatter · widen · wig out

TRANSLATION OF BLOW UP

Find out the translation of blow up to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of blow up from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «blow up» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 爆炸
• Translator English - Spanish: estallar
• English: blow up
• Translator English - Hindi: उड़ा
• Translator English - Arabic: يَنْفُخُ
• Translator English - Russian: взорвать
• Translator English - Portuguese: explodir
• Translator English - Bengali: উড়ে উড়ে
• Translator English - French: exploser
• Translator English - Malay: meletupkan
• Translator English - German: explodieren
• Translator English - Japanese: 爆破する
• Translator English - Korean: 폭발하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyedhot
• Translator English - Vietnamese: nổ tung
• Translator English - Tamil: தகர்ப்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: उडवून
• Translator English - Turkish: patlamak
• Translator English - Italian: gonfiare
• Translator English - Polish: wysadzić w powietrze
• Translator English - Ukrainian: підривати
• Translator English - Romanian: a exploda
• Translator English - Greek: ανατινάζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: blaas
• Translator English - Swedish: explodera
• Translator English - Norwegian: sprenge

10 QUOTES WITH «BLOW UP»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word blow up.

1

Shelley Berman

So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up.

2

Shane Black

I'm ashamed to say this, but I watched every episode of 'Starsky and Hutch' as a kid. I loved that show, but now I think it's stupid - they'd have a car chase for no reason, then Paul Michael Glaser would shoot the car and it would blow up.

3

Erma Bombeck

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

4

Tina Brown

The no-secrets era of social media makes one consider the built-in risk factor of nominating high-testosterone men to positions of power at all. Everyone is under too much scrutiny now to take a chance on candidates who suddenly blow up into a comic meme, a punchline, a ribald hashtag.

5

Martin Campbell

Bond in 'Goldeneye' is pretty much a set character. To be honest, he's another version of Connery, and Connery was terrific. How many submarines can you blow up? How many control rooms are evaporating?

6

Joyce Cary

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

7

Sarah Chalke

So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out.

8

Roz Chast

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

9

Katie Couric

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

10

Gregg Easterbrook

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BLOW UP»

Discover the use of blow up in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to blow up and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Antonioni's Blow-up

These texts draw on new research and effectively situate the film in the social and creative contexts that informed Antonioni's screenplay and art direction - on the one hand through an account of the milieu of fashionable photographers and ...

Philippe Garner, David Mellor, 2010

Blow-up in Quasilinear Parabolic Equations

Originally published in Russian by Nauka, Moscow, in 1987. The index is one slender page. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

‎1995

Blow-up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain

In Blow-Up, a collection of essays that tackle aesthetics from the angle of neuroscience, Warren Neidich proposes a different and wholly original paradigm for thinking through cultural history and the philosophy of the human subject.

Warren Neidich, 2003

Blow Up the Humanities

A short, sharp, and provocative book, Blow Up the Humanities, has esteemed scholar Toby Miller declaring that there are two humanities in the United States.

Toby Miller, 2012

The Great American Blow-Up: Puffery in Advertising and Selling

How does advertising really work? This thoroughly revised edition of Ivan Preston’s popular classic, The Great American Blow-Up, provides new examples of puffery and deceit in advertising.

Ivan L. Preston, 1996

Blow-up Theories for Semilinear Parabolic Equations

There is an enormous amount of work in the literature about the blow-up behavior of evolution equations. It is our intention to introduce the theory by emphasizing the methods while seeking to avoid massive technical computations.

Bei Hu, 2011

Air Kiss and Tell: Memoirs of a blow-up doll

The hilarious and refreshingly honest memoir that tracks the highs and lows of the star of The Celebrity Apprentice and Australia's Next Top Model .

Charlotte Dawson, Jo Thornely, 2012

Arthur and the Big Blow-Up

The soccer team is headed for the playoffs but the two best players are arguing. Arthur and Buster help the Brain and Francine get along.

‎2005

Blow-up Theory for Elliptic PDEs in Riemannian Geometry (MN-45)

This splitting is known as the integral theory for blow-up. In this book, the authors develop the pointwise theory for blow-up. They introduce new ideas and methods that lead to sharp pointwise estimates.

Olivier Druet, Emmanuel Hebey, Frédéric Robert, 2009

Blow-up in Nonlinear Sobolev Type Equations

The monograph is devoted to the study of initial-boundary-value problems for multi-dimensional Sobolev-type equations over bounded domains.

Alexander B. Al'shin, Maxim O. Korpusov, Alexey G. Sveshnikov, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BLOW UP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term blow up is used in the context of the following news items.

No, Greece Won't Blow Up US Banks Stocks

US financials have been one of the best performing sectors this year–the Financial Sector Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF) has gained 9.7% so ... «Barron's, Jul 15»

Mega Buzz: How Will the Wayward Pines Bombing Blow Up Ethan's …

Things took an explosive turn on last week's Wayward Pines when a bomb built by a group of insurgents inadvertently blew up a truck that was ... «seattlepi.com, Jul 15»

Trainer Bryce Stanaway may be banned from Pakenham after blow …

... of intimidating staff and might be blocked from having future runners at the Pakenham course after his blow up over sandwiches on Sunday. «Herald Sun, Jul 15»

Egypt: 13 Extremists Held in Plot to Blow Up Suez Canal

Egyptian authorities have arrested 13 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on suspicion of planting bombs around the Suez Canal to disrupt ... «Newsmax, Jul 15»

Annie: Fiery tempers threaten to blow up family

DEAR ANNIE: My father has always been especially unkind to my sister, "Portia." She always has had behavioral problems, not to mention she ... «SunHerald.com, Jul 15»

Militants blow up another school in Bajaur Agency

Militants blow up another school in Bajaur Agency. No group has claimed the responsibility of the attack so far. By Mureeb Mohmand. «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»

Transport police have very British reaction to man 'threatening to …

One arrested for Section 4 P.O.A. at #York for threatening to blow up a train. Behaviour like that will not be tolerated. — BTP York East Coast ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

ISIS Could Blow Up the Entire USA on July 4th If We're Not Careful

As a U.S. American, just how terrified should you be this weekend about terrorism? “The vigilance surrounding this year's celebration carries ... «Gawker, Jul 15»

Man held after threat to blow up train

It is understood the man's alleged claim that he would blow up the train was not being considered as a credible threat by police and the incident ... «Darlington and Stockton Times, Jul 15»

Man found guilty of threatening on Facebook to blow up courthouse

LAKE COUNTY, Ind. (WLFI) — A guilty verdict was reached late Thursday night in the case of a Pine Village man charged with threatening to ... «WANE, Jul 15»