blow up

explotar, hacer explotar

Explotar o destruir algo mediante una explosión.

En inglés sencillo: To explode, or destroy something with an explosion.

• The bomb blew up.
• A gas leak caused the house to blow up.
• They blew up the old bridge last week.

Cómo se usa: blow something up (The soldiers blew up the bridge.)

Sinónimos: explode, detonate

Expresiones frecuentes: blow up suddenly, blow up bridges

ampliar, agrandar

Hacer una imagen más grande o mostrar una vista más cercana de una parte.

En inglés sencillo: To make a picture bigger, or show a closer view of part of it.

• Please blow up the picture.
• She blew the photo up to check his face.
• Can we blow this image up without losing detail?

Cómo se usa: blow something up (Blow the image up so we can read the sign.)

Sinónimos: enlarge, magnify

Antónimos: shrink, reduce

Expresiones frecuentes: blow up photos, blow up something

hacerse viral, hacerse famoso

Volverse muy popular o conocido en poco tiempo.

En inglés sencillo: To become very popular or widely known in a short time.

• Her video blew up overnight.
• The song is blowing up on social media.
• Nobody expected the little cafe to blow up so quickly.

Sinónimos: take off, go viral

Expresiones frecuentes: blow up online, blow up overnight

ampliar, agrandar

Hacer una imagen o una parte de ella más grande para verla mejor.

En inglés sencillo: To make a picture or part of it bigger so you can see it more clearly.

• Can you blow up this photo?
• I blew the image up to see the writing.
• They are blowing up old photographs for the exhibition.

Cómo se usa: blow something up (Could you blow this photo up?); blow something up to a size (We blew the picture up to poster size.)

Sinónimos: enlarge, magnify

Antónimos: shrink, reduce

Expresiones frecuentes: blow up pictures, blow up something

exagerar, magnificar

Hacer que algo parezca más grave o importante de lo que es.

En inglés sencillo: To make something seem more serious or important than it really is.

• Do not blow up a small problem.
• The papers blew the incident up into a scandal.
• She keeps blowing every disagreement up into a crisis.

Cómo se usa: blow something up into something (They blew a small mistake up into a major scandal.)

Sinónimos: exaggerate, inflate

Antónimos: downplay

Expresiones frecuentes: blow up something, blow up problems