blow-up

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English

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Etymology

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Deverbal from blow up.

Adjective

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blow-up (not comparable)

  1. Inflatable; able to be blown up.
    The kids played with a blow-up sea-monster in the pool.

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Noun

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blow-up (plural blow-ups)

  1. (informal) An explosion (physical or emotional).
    I heard Jen's blow-up from the next room.
    • 2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
      How OpenAI resolves the blow-up at its highest levels may help show how well its competitors, in the race for human-level AI, can be expected to handle the deep contradictions in their work between progress and safety.
  2. (informal) An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph).
    Make a blow-up of the chart so we have more room to draw on it.

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