English-Portuguese translations for blow up

• explodir
  Se assim não acontecer, é evidente que os problemas irão explodir nas mãos. If that does not happen, the problems are certain to blow up in our hands.
  É preciso pormos cobro a esta tendência, sob o risco de vermos a Europa explodir-nos um dia entre os dedos.We must stop this downward trend, lest one day we see Europe blow up in our faces.
  Recordemos a tentativa falhada de fazer explodir um avião que voava rumo aos EUA, bem como as ameaças contra embaixadas no Iémen. Let us also remember the failed attempt to blow up a plane flying to the USA, as well as threats against embassies in Yemen.
• ampliar
• encher

Definition of blow up

• To explode or be destroyed by explosion
• To cause to explode, or to destroy or maim or kill by means of an explosion
• To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump
• To enlarge or zoom in
• To fail disastrously
• To become popular very quickly
• To suddenly get very angry
• To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time
• To excite
• To scold violently
• To blow the whistle
• To bombard with a large number of telephone calls, texts, etc
• To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation

Examples

• Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?
• We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.
• More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines.
• For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed.
• Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces.
• This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV.
• Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant.
• to blow someone up with flattery
• to blow up a contention
• to blow up a person for some offence
• Dont go in there...I really blew it up.

Related words

• blowing up
• blow up in one's face
• blow something up
• blow-up
• upblow
• blowup