blow up

En français : gonfler, agrandir, exploser, faire sauter

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, up. · See if you can blow the bubbles up the staircase.· Trying blowing up it at an angle instead of directly across it.
2. To explode or be destroyed by explosion. (figuratively, intransitive) · Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?
3. To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion. (figuratively, transitive) · We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived.· More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines.
4. To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or by using a pump. (transitive) · For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed.
5. To represent something as being more important or serious than it actually is; to inflate; to exaggerate. (figuratively, transitive)
6. To enlarge or zoom in on. (transitive) · Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces.
7. To fail disastrously. (intransitive)
8. To increase without bound as a function argument or parameter approaches a certain value; to tend toward infinity; to approach infinity as a limit. (intransitive) · The quantity 1/x blows up as x approaches zero.