blow up

To explode or be destroyed by explosion.

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

To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump.

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

(old-fashioned) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.

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

(old-fashioned) To scold violently, blow up at.

To enlarge or zoom in on.

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

(slang) To become popular very quickly.

(slang) To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.

(slang) To overwhelm (a place) with traffic or volume by revealing its existence to others.

(slang) To bombard with a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of rendering temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.

(slang) To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.

(slang) To be overwhelmed with traffic or volume.

(slang) To receive a large number of calls, texts, or notifications, to the point of being rendered temporarily unusable or exasperating the recipient.

To fail disastrously.

To begin; to gather; to form.

(old-fashioned) To excite.

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

To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.

(informal, slang) To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation, defecation, etc.

To blow the whistle.

(slang, old-fashioned) To use an intoxicating drug; to get high.

(informal) An explosion (physical or emotional).

(informal) An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph).

Inflatable; able to be blown up.