blow up

exploser, faire sauter

Exploser ou détruire quelque chose par une explosion.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : blow something up (The soldiers blew up the bridge.)

Synonymes : explode, detonate

Expressions courantes : blow up suddenly, blow up bridges

agrandir

Agrandir une image ou montrer une vue plus rapprochée d’une partie.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : blow something up (Blow the image up so we can read the sign.)

Synonymes : enlarge, magnify

Contraires : shrink, reduce

Expressions courantes : blow up photos, blow up something

devenir viral, devenir célèbre

Devenir très populaire ou connu en peu de temps.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : take off, go viral

Expressions courantes : blow up online, blow up overnight

agrandir

Rendre une image ou une partie de celle-ci plus grande pour mieux la voir.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : blow something up (Could you blow this photo up?); blow something up to a size (We blew the picture up to poster size.)

Synonymes : enlarge, magnify

Contraires : shrink, reduce

Expressions courantes : blow up pictures, blow up something

exagérer, grossir

Faire paraître quelque chose plus grave ou plus important qu’en réalité.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : blow something up into something (They blew a small mistake up into a major scandal.)

Synonymes : exaggerate, inflate

Contraires : downplay

Expressions courantes : blow up something, blow up problems