Other midsentence adverbs

already	merely	ultimately	probably
just	finally	eventually	most likely

 

 

Infinitive
	present tense	-ing form	past tense	past participle
blow up	blow up & blows up	blowing up	blew up	blown up

 

1. blow... up p.v. When something blows up or when someone blows something up, it explodes.

Seven people were killed when the building blew up.

The hijackers ultimately blew the plane up.

2. blow... up p.v. When something blows up or when someone blows something up, it becomes much larger because air or something else is being forced into it.

It always takes me an hour or more to blow up the balloons for a party.

Hank blew up a beach ball and threw it in the pool.

3. blow... up p.v. When you make a picture or photograph larger, you blow it up.

I blew the photograph up and framed it.

When you blow this photo of the car up, you can make out the license plate number.

blowup n.A blowup is a picture or photograph that has been made larger.I made a blowup of the photo and framed it.

4. blow up (atIover) p.v. [informal] When you blow up or blow up at someone, you suddenly become very angry. When you blow up over something, you suddenly become very angry because of it.

Heather blew up when she saw her boyfriend dancing with Linda.

Heather blew up at her boyfriend when she saw him dancing with Linda.

Dad blew up over the increase in our property taxes.