Blowing up
Blowing up noun - A severe rebuke.
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Synonyms for Blowing up
Go off and blowing up are semantically related. in explode topic. In some cases you can use "Go off" instead a verb phrase "Blowing up".
Go off
Go off verb - To break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure.
Blowing up and go off are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Blowing up" with "Go off", this terms are similar.
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Throw the Dog a Bone: Thanquol's plots all go off without a hitch after decades of blowing up in his face.
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He once managed to calculate how long it would take the Fantastic Four to invade an enemy fortress, take out the enemies, and escape, and had planted a bomb to go off exactly as they had left the building blowing up their mutual enemy but not the Four.
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Stuff Blowing Up: The result of some of Elgar's amateur chemistry:''One day he made a phosphoric concoction which, when dry, would "go off" by spontaneous combustion.
Source: Music / Edward Elgar
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