Blow-Up, for its part, is not only a great work of art but a great work of philosophy as well, one as impressive as Antonioni’s Italian masterpiece, La Notte (1961). b. At the more extreme end, some individuals and groups crash aeroplanes or blow up buildings. Our poor dog is hiding under the bed because our neighbors celebrate the Fourth of July by blowing up tons of fireworks. 1. intransitive/transitive if something blows up, or if someone blows something up, it explodes and is destroyed. blow up in (one's) face To have a plan go wrong or awry. They used five tons of dynamite to blow up the rock. Can you help me blow up these balloons?

Guy Fawkes, chief plotter in the attempt to blow up the British Houses of Parliament, was executed in 1606. use "blow up" in a sentence My dad is going to blow up when he finds out I dented the car last night. Blow Up keeps thin features like hair (and tentacles!) 3. verb (used with … transitive verb.

As the 1991 Persian Gulf War drew to a close, Hussein sent men to blow up Kuwaiti oil wells. A small rubber boat or raft filled with air. Examples: •He put too much air in the tire, and so it blew up.

vb ( adverb) 1. to explode or cause to explode.

Today let's write sentences using the phrasal verb: "Blow up" 1.-Definition: inflate. noun.

to move along, carried by or as by the wind: Dust seemed to blow through every crack in the house. 2. She blew on her fingers to warm them. Examples of blow up in a sentence, how to use it. We need a pump to blow up our air mattress. 4. This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Terrorists had threatened to blow up the embassy.

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1 : to build up or tout to an unreasonable extent advertisers blowing up their products. 4. blow up in your face if a situation blows up in your face, it unexpectedly goes wrong and destroys your plans or your chances of something He must have known that having no evidence, this would blow up in his face. ( tr) to increase the importance of (something): they blew the whole affair up. An angry argument or confrontation: a blowup between the administration and the faculty. It didn't blow up, but it stopped almost instantly, and two other vehicles crashed into the back of it.

Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. In December 2003, attempts to blow up his car failed when the device fell off as he drove it down the road. 6. exaggerate or make bigger. 3. They threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met. blow up. The army used precision - … 2 : to rend apart, shatter, or destroy by explosion. Designed to be filled with air or gas before or during use: an inflatable mattress. Mike was trying to sabotage my campaign, but the plan blew up in his face when I overhead him talking about it.