estallar
reach + a head ; detonate ; break out ; burst forth ; flare ; blow up ; blow + Nombre + sky high ; blow + a fuse ; pop ; let off ; reach + boiling point ; go off ; blow out.
Growing concern reached a head in the mid 1980s when a number of practitioners expressed the view that children's librarianship had lost its way.
There has been an explosion in terminology detonated by developments related to XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
Loud, unscripted quarrels between unshaven peasants break out in odd corners of the auditorium and add to the liveliness.
It seems the passions of the people were only sleeping and burst forth with a terrible fury.
The visual manifestation of the recent Hale-Bopp comet reminds us how telling are those rare objects which suddenly flare in the sky.
The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
This is all that can be done at this point to prevent the current violence from blowing sky-high, destabilising the region, and sending oil prices into the stratosphere.
He simply blew a fuse and decided to go out on the road, spitefully apologizing again and again, until he got it right.
The azaleas are popping, the redbuds are in their finest attire, and the dogwoods are lacy jewels at the edge of the wood.
By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
This hilarious show pranks unsuspecting guests, testing their patience to see just how long before they reach boiling point.
My hand looks like a hand grenade went off near it - all cut up, bruised and with perforations by small bits of flying glass.
Last week the old basswood tree was hit by lighting and the whole side was blown out.
estallar a borbotones
splurt out
In the morning my shower started to splurt out boiling water, scalding my head so badly it has blistered.
estar a punto de estallar
be at boiling point
Tensions among Rwandans were at boiling point, public order was in anarchy and the nation was in tears.
guerra + estallar
war + break out
When the Second World War broke out, my motherland was arduously fighting against Japanese imperialism.
hacer estallar
spark
ignite
touch off
blow up
let off
The nineteenth century was, quite rightly, fearful of any system of spreading knowledge which might spark the tinder box of unrest.
In turn, that change ignited a body of literature that discussed those cataloguers' future roles.
This decision touched off a battle of wills between the library and the government as well as a blitz of media publicity.
The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
hacer estallar en añicos
blow + Nombre + sky high
This is all that can be done at this point to prevent the current violence from blowing sky-high, destabilising the region, and sending oil prices into the stratosphere.
hacer estallar petardos
set off + firecrackers
Students who set off firecrackers in schools will get a beating in the schoolyard by their headmaster.
hacer estallar una bomba [La "b" no se pronuncia (ni en aplomb, climb, numb, plumb)]
bomb
The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo was bombed and burnt out with the loss of 90 per cent of its stock.
hacer estallar una guerra
ignite + a war
kindle + a war
precipitate + a war
The article is entitled 'Free MEDLINE ignites vendor wars'.
Now this terrible message was good news to Florus; and because his design was to have a war kindled, he gave the ambassadors no answer at all.
As important as these activists were, however, it was a set of policy ideas more than the individuals themselves that precipitated the war.
rebelión + estallar
rebellion + break out
At the 1969 ALA conference in Atlantic City, a rebellion broke out which fundamentally changed the ALA and academic librarianship.