Verb
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to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
"puffed out chests"
- puff up - puff out -
fill with gas or air
"inflate a balloons"
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exaggerate or make bigger
"The charges were inflated"
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burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
"the bomb detonated at noon"
"The Molotov cocktail exploded"
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get very angry and fly into a rage
"The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"
"Spam makes me go ballistic"
- flip one's lid - throw a fit - hit the roof - hit the ceiling - have kittens - have a fit - blow one's stack - fly off the handle - flip one's wig - lose one's temper - blow a fuse - go ballistic -
make large
"blow up an image"
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cause to burst with a violent release of energy
"We exploded the nuclear bomb"
- set off