blowing up

Noun

Meaning

a severe rebuke

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

blowing-up

Synonyms

plumping inflation explosion blowing detonate edema intensification berating blowup protruding speedup distension bellying exploding bloating
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Antonyms

engineering

Hypernyms

rebuke reprimand reproof reprehension reproval

Examples

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. Michael Chabon

Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier. Dick Dale

Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge. Henry Miller

In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society. Sam Kinison

Daddy will explain. Come, he is blowing up monsters. Rick Riordan

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties. Gary Busey

Close letter words and terms

blowing pipe blowing smoke blowing tube blowing your nose blowing your top blowingly