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(verb) make large; "blow up an image" |
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Synonyms: enlarge, magnify |
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Related Words: increase |
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Antonyms: reduce |
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(verb) blow one's stack; fly off the handle, flip one's wig; lose one's temper; blow a fuse |
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Synonyms: throw a fit |
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Related Words: rage |
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(verb) fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons" |
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Synonyms: inflate |
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Related Words: billow, expand, heave, reflate, surge |
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(verb) exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" |
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Synonyms: amplify, expand, inflate |
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Related Words: increase, puff up |
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(verb) to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs" |
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Synonyms: puff, puff out, puff up |
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Related Words: distend, swell, swell up |
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(verb) cause to explode; "We exploded the nuclear bomb" |
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Synonyms: detonate, explode, set off |
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Related Words: change integrity, dynamite |
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(verb) add details to |
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Synonyms: aggrandize, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
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Related Words: amplify, exaggerate, glorify, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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