verb
- Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
- usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
- Make large.
- usage: "blow up an image"
- Get very angry and fly into a rage.
- usage: "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"
- Add details to.
- synonyms: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, dramatize, dramatise
- (v.) ()
- Exaggerate or make bigger.
- usage: "The charges were inflated"
- Fill with gas or air.
- usage: "inflate a balloons"
- synonyms: inflate
- (v.) ().
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