blow up

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.”

2. fiil To explode or be destroyed by explosion.

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

3. fiil 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.”

4. fiil 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.”

5. fiil To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate.

   “The foreign secretary David Miliband's emphasis that this is purely a consular matter is intended to forestall an attempt by Iranian hardliners to blow the incident up.”

6. fiil To enlarge or zoom in on.

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

7. fiil To fail disastrously.

   “So I wish you luck, but don't come crying to me when it blows up in your face.”

8. fiil 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. fiil To become popular very quickly.

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

10. fiil To suddenly get very angry, to lose one's temper.

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

11. fiil To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
12. fiil To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.

    “to blow someone up with flattery”

13. fiil To excite.

    “to blow up a contention”

14. fiil To scold violently, blow up at.

    “[…] did not choose to comply with her wishes. Upon which Mrs. Basset, in the language of the Old Bailey, nabbed the rust; insisted upon some liquor, would not quit the house without it, and began to blow up the hostess and blast the rose.”

15. fiil To blow the whistle.
16. fiil To succumb to oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
17. fiil To overwhelm through unexpectedly high demand, activity, usage, traffic volume, etc.

    “I blew up another department's API servers – did I screw up or should they have more protections?”

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

    “blow up the spot;   blow up someone's spot”

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

    “blow up someone's phone”

20. fiil To be overwhelmed by unexpectedly high demand, usage, activity, traffic volume, etc.

    “There were so many incoming enemy planes that our monitoring and notification system blew up before the base was even able to respond.”