blowing up
Meanings
- a severe rebuke;
- cause to burst with a violent release of energy;
- make large;
- get very angry and fly into a rage;
- add details to
- burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction;
- exaggerate or make bigger;
- fill with gas or air;
- to swell or cause to enlarge,
Synonyms
- berating
- explode
- detonate
- blow up
- set off
- enlarge
- magnify
- flip one's lid
- throw a fit
- hit the roof
- hit the ceiling
- have kittens
- have a fit
- combust
- blow one's stack
- fly off the handle
- flip one's wig
- lose one's temper
- blow a fuse
- go ballistic
- embroider
- pad
- lard
- embellish
- aggrandize
- aggrandise
- dramatize
- dramatise
- inflate
- expand
- amplify
- puff
- puff up
- puff out