blow up

Meaning

1. Oxford65% of films

   to destroy sth by an explosion

2. Oxford35% of films

   to explode; to be destroyed by an explosion

   - Is it gonna blow up? -I don't know!

In the movies · 75

• - Is it gonna blow up? -I don't know!Transformers: Age of Extinction2014
• Balloons. Hey, these blow up into funny shapes at all?Raising Arizona1987
• Let's just get this whole business over with, and I'm sorry I blew up at you.No Way Out1987
• Die! Blow up already.Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022
• I'll blow up my ship. I will blow up the Cybele.Battlestar Galactica: The Plan2009
• Didn't Krypton blow up?The Lego Movie2014
• What happened? Did we blow up?The Bad Guys2022
• It could blow up any minute.Madame Web2024

Learn it in full scenes

• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022
  • Puss Crashes His Own Fiesta
  • Puss Learns He Has Died
  • The Doctor Gives Puss His Last Life
• The Lego Movie2014
  • Emmet Follows the Instructions
  • Emmet's Morning Routine in Bricksburg
  • Emmet Touches the Piece of Resistance

From the same entry

• blow your brains out
• blow chunks
• blow a fuse
• blow the gaff
• blow hot and cold
• blow out of the water
• blow smoke
• blow your mind
• blow your own trumpet
• blow your top
• blow up in face
• blow the whistle on

More phrasal verbs

• look back
• move out
• live up to
• find out
• go back
• come from
• look at
• fuck off
• think about
• get out
• come back
• piss off