blow up

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.

   See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.

   Trying blowing up it at an angle instead of directly across it.

2. (also, figuratively, intransitive)To explode or be destroyed by explosion.

   Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?

3. (also, figuratively, transitive)To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.

   We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.

   More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines.

4. (transitive)To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.

   For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed.

   fill with gas or air

5. (figuratively, transitive)To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.

   aufblasen

   надува́тьnaduvátʹ, наду́тьnadútʹ

6. (transitive)To enlarge or zoom in on.

   Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces.

   vergrößern

   увеличиватьuveličivatʹ, приближатьpribližatʹ

   to swell or cause to enlarge

7. (intransitive)To fail disastrously.

8. (intransitive)To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit.

   The quantity 1/x blows up as x approaches zero.

9. (intransitive, slang)To become popular very quickly.

   This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV.

10. (intransitive, slang)To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.

    Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant.

    get very angry and fly into a rage

11. (intransitive, slang)To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.

12. (dated, transitive)To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.

    to blow someone up with flattery

1. Blow these balloons up for me.

   Надуй мені ці кульки.

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2. Tom blew up a balloon and gave it to Mary.

   Том надув кульку й дав її Мері.

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3. Tom blew up the balloon.

   Том надув кульку.

   ruТом надул шарик.

   deTom blies den Ballon auf.

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4. Tom blew the balloon up.

   Том надув кульку.

   ruТом надул шарик.

   deTom blies den Ballon auf.

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5. Someone tried to blow us up.

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• blow upпідірвати, висадити в повітряUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up.
• blow outдути, дмухатиTo extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas.
• blow overпройти, проходитиTo blow on something causing it to topple.
• blow offUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, off.
• blow onTo forcefully expel air from the lungs onto an object.
• blow inTo unexpectedly and casually arrive.
• blow downTo knock over with an air current, most often wind.
• blow awayUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.