Big Huge Thesaurus

blow up

verb

• explode
• detonate
• set off
• enlarge
• magnify
• flip one's lid
• throw a fit
• hit the roof
• hit the ceiling
• have kittens
• have a fit
• combust
• blow one's stack
• fly off the handle
• flip one's wig
• lose one's temper
• blow a fuse
• go ballistic
• embroider
• pad
• lard
• embellish
• aggrandize
• aggrandise
• dramatize
• dramatise
• inflate
• expand
• amplify
• puff
• puff up
• puff out
• change integrity
• exaggerate
• hyerbolise
• hyperbolize
• increase
• intumesce
• overdraw
• overstate
• rage
• swell
• swell up
• tumefy
• tumesce

antonyms

• deflate
• reduce

sounds kind of like

• bailiff
• balboa
• ball boy
• ball up
• ballup
• bay leaf
• behalf
• belief
• believe
• bell buoy
• bellboy
• bellhop
• belly whop
• belly-up
• beowulf
• bible leaf
• bilby
• bio lab
• bivalve
• bivalvia
• blab
• blabby
• bleb
• blebby
• bleep
• blip
• blob
• blow off
• blowpipe
• blowup
• blub
• blue baby
• blue pea
• blue poppy
• bluff
• bolivia
• bubble up
• bulb
• bull bay
• bully beef
• bully off
• bullyboy