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blow up is a verb:
- To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
"Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?" - To explode something or somebody or destroy something or injure or kill somebody by explosion.
"We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived." - To inflate or fill with air.
"Blow up the balloons." - To enlarge or zoom in.
"Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces." - To fail disastrously.
- To become popular very quickly.
"This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV." - To suddenly get very angry.
"Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is blow up?
- Verb usage: Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?
- Verb usage: We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.
- Verb usage: More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines.
- Verb usage: Blow up the balloons.
- Verb usage: Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces.
- Verb usage: This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV.
- Verb usage: Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of blow up are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of blow up, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).