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Hollywood might possibly fear North Korean sleeper cells capable of blowing up theaters that screen anti-Nork films.

Watch the green-clad moustachioed menace wreak havoc in Mario Kart 8, blowing up Waluigi and then giving a “death stare.”

Her last official engagement before she gave birth to baby George was marred by her skirts blowing up and flashing her underwear.

I was born in Brooklyn on June 28, 1926, the 12th anniversary of the blowing up of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria.

Punishing the vile Assad regime by blowing up Syrian government assets would benefit neither the Syrians nor the Americans.

Yet, so curiously constituted is the native mind, the blowing-up of the magazine was the final tocsin of revolt.

He stood at the open window and saw storm clouds blowing up swiftly.

On our approach the enemy re-crossed the bridge, blowing up one of the two bridges and mining the other.

I had come down to give you rather a blowing up about Miss Rider.

Everything in front of us was on fire; buildings blowing up and flames roaring in every direction.

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On this page you'll find 106 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to blow up, such as: fill, billow, bloat, distend, enlarge, and expand.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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