blow up

esplodere, far saltare

Esplodere o distruggere qualcosa con un’esplosione.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: blow something up (The soldiers blew up the bridge.)

Sinonimi: explode, detonate

Espressioni comuni: blow up suddenly, blow up bridges

ingrandire

Ingrandire un’immagine o mostrare più da vicino una sua parte.

In inglese semplice: 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?

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

Sinonimi: enlarge, magnify

Contrari: shrink, reduce

Espressioni comuni: blow up photos, blow up something

diventare virale, diventare famoso

Diventare molto popolare o conosciuto in poco tempo.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: take off, go viral

Espressioni comuni: blow up online, blow up overnight

ingrandire

Rendere più grande un’immagine o una sua parte per vederla meglio.

In inglese semplice: 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.

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

Sinonimi: enlarge, magnify

Contrari: shrink, reduce

Espressioni comuni: blow up pictures, blow up something

esagerare, ingigantire

Far sembrare qualcosa più grave o importante di quanto sia davvero.

In inglese semplice: 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.

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

Sinonimi: exaggerate, inflate

Contrari: downplay

Espressioni comuni: blow up something, blow up problems