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View definitions for blow-up

blow-up

noun as in blast

noun as in detonation

Strongest match

noun as in eruption

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Example Sentences

Gadsby never expected to blow up in U.S. and the sudden success brings many new challenges.

But it wasn’t until this show that everything blew up.”

And if he gets his way on selections for some of the most important posts in government, he would put in place loyalists intent on blowing up the very departments they would lead.

From Salon

In October, the North blew up sections of two roads that connected it to South Korea, days after accusing Seoul of flying drones into the North’s capital Pyongyang.

From BBC

Musk has long belittled fuel-cell vehicles and Trump has often talked about hydrogen cars blowing up like an “atomic bomb.”

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

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