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View synonyms for blown-up

blown-up

[ blohn-uhp ]

adjective

  1. (of a picture, photograph, image, etc.) enlarged.
  2. damaged or destroyed by demolition, explosion, etc.:

    blown-up bridges.

  3. (of a ball, balloon, etc.) inflated.
  4. overexpanded; unduly large:

    a blown-up sense of importance.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of blown-up1

First recorded in 1860–65
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Example Sentences

He was blown up in July 2012 by a bomb that the Free Syrian Army claimed it planted.

One strip, Foolish Grandpa and Sour Henry, shows Grandpa being hit on the head by a sandbag and blown up by dynamite.

Within hours of completing their takeover of Sinjar, the Sayyida Zaynab mosque, a Shia holy site, was reportedly blown up.

Then a gas pipeline in the Poltava region of Ukraine was suddenly blown up by unknown assailants.

I know which ones will get you shot at and which ones will get you blown up.

A groom is a chap, that a gentleman keeps to clean his 'osses, and be blown up, when things go wrong.

The bag, being blown up, forms a wind reservoir and the amount of tone can be regulated by the pressure of the arm.

Accordingly, the Marshal retired with the remnants of his corps to the Elster, only to find the bridge blown up.

The "Virginia" was later blown up when the Confederates evacuated Norfolk.

Fort Bizoton, Port-au-Prince, blown up by its commandant, in revenge of some supposed injuries received from his superiors.

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