What is the meaning of blowing up?

noun

• A severe rebuke.
  • usage: "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him"
  • synonyms: berating

verb

• Cause to burst with a violent release of energy.
  • usage: "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
  • synonyms: explode, detonate, blow up, set off
• Make large.
  • usage: "blow up an image"
  • synonyms: blow up, enlarge, magnify
• 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"
  • synonyms: flip one's lid, blow up, 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
• Add details to.
  • synonyms: embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: detonate, explode, blow up
• Exaggerate or make bigger.
  • usage: "The charges were inflated"
  • synonyms: inflate, blow up, expand, amplify
• Fill with gas or air.
  • usage: "inflate a balloons"
  • synonyms: inflate, blow up
• (v.) ().
  • synonyms: puff, puff up, blow up, puff out