Blow up and Make

Opposite meaning terms

Blow up verb - To become very angry.

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Make is an antonym for blow up.

Make verb - To bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials.

Usage example: will you help me make the dough for the cookies?

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Blow up is an antonym for make.

Nearby Words: makeup, making, maker

And Vash spends the next several decades feeling he has to make amends for that, somehow, until Knives uses him to blow up a fucking city, and then he feels the need to make up for that.

Source: Must Make Amends
Given that the setting seems to have no gunpowder (or anything else similarly advanced) and the dungeon in question is a prison, one has to wonder what's in the barrels that would make them blow up.

Source: Exploding Barrels
The elf responsible tries to make bombs to blow up a street to frame the Qunari, but instead winds up poisoning lots of people, and doesn't entirely see it as a setback.

Source: Sarcasm Failure

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