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Definition of blown-up in English: blown-upadjective 1Destroyed or severely damaged by an explosion. Example sentencesExamples - I now recognize the crump and roar which denotes another blown-up bus or cafe.
- Scores of blown-up vehicles lined the roads.
- The pictures, which showed the inside of blown-up train carriages and seized bomb-making materials, had been "supplied in confidence to some of our colleague agencies", he said.
- The blown-up bridges had not been rebuilt across the Arno and there were tremendous food scarcities.
- The island had suffered a gas explosion, followed by the crash of a helicopter sent to rescue birdwatchers trapped in a blown-up building.
- In a secretive compound north of Paris, colored blips and blotches on a computer-screen map depict an armored vehicle at a highway, tanks, a blown-up building in a suburban field.
- The ferocious struggle often appears in our media in predictable images: a blown-up bus, rock-throwing youths, a bulldozed house, and so on.
- It's just too hard to get the television images of blown-up buses out of my head.
- The worst thing she had seen was blown-up tanks at the side of the road and children begging for food and water.
- We did not know how we were going to get past Pontoon Bridge in its blown-up state.
2Enlarged. Example sentencesExamples - The regular grid on the paper at some particular time will look like a blown-up version of the way it looked at an earlier time.
- Johannesburg has been transformed into an art gallery with some 65 blown-up artworks erected on the city's buildings.
- The land- or cityscapes in the blown-up photos introduce varying degrees of spatial recession, the depth depending on the scenes.
- On display in the shop was a blown-up article from an international newspaper.
- I can see the blown-up prints on the adjacent computer screen.
- The simple set includes a large blackboard, festooned with the blown-up headlines used to advertise newspapers.
- The Hibernian midfielder is having his photograph taken in front of a blown-up picture from last season of some of his younger teammates celebrating.
- Only the presence of a blown-up photograph of Devarajan on the dais gave an indication.
- Here's a blown-up shot of a detail from downtown Seattle, which is part of our test run.
3Inflated; swollen. Example sentencesExamples - If you stick a blown-up balloon into a vat of melted chocolate, it'll pop in your face.
- Blown-up dinosaurs hang from the ceiling and sit watching from book shelves.
- Elsewhere, desperate refugees build a raft, or use blown-up plastic bags to try to float across the river.
- Using the sticky tape, attach the ends of four of the lengths of string to the egg-box section and the other ends to the sides of the blown-up balloon.
- The last image in that ad was the blown-up head of Geoffrey the Toys'R'Us mascot bouncing around in the parking lot.
Definition of blown-up in US English: blown-upadjective 1Destroyed or severely damaged by an explosion. Example sentencesExamples - The worst thing she had seen was blown-up tanks at the side of the road and children begging for food and water.
- The blown-up bridges had not been rebuilt across the Arno and there were tremendous food scarcities.
- In a secretive compound north of Paris, colored blips and blotches on a computer-screen map depict an armored vehicle at a highway, tanks, a blown-up building in a suburban field.
- I now recognize the crump and roar which denotes another blown-up bus or cafe.
- The island had suffered a gas explosion, followed by the crash of a helicopter sent to rescue birdwatchers trapped in a blown-up building.
- We did not know how we were going to get past Pontoon Bridge in its blown-up state.
- It's just too hard to get the television images of blown-up buses out of my head.
- The pictures, which showed the inside of blown-up train carriages and seized bomb-making materials, had been "supplied in confidence to some of our colleague agencies", he said.
- The ferocious struggle often appears in our media in predictable images: a blown-up bus, rock-throwing youths, a bulldozed house, and so on.
- Scores of blown-up vehicles lined the roads.
2Enlarged. Example sentencesExamples - The land- or cityscapes in the blown-up photos introduce varying degrees of spatial recession, the depth depending on the scenes.
- The Hibernian midfielder is having his photograph taken in front of a blown-up picture from last season of some of his younger teammates celebrating.
- On display in the shop was a blown-up article from an international newspaper.
- The regular grid on the paper at some particular time will look like a blown-up version of the way it looked at an earlier time.
- Johannesburg has been transformed into an art gallery with some 65 blown-up artworks erected on the city's buildings.
- I can see the blown-up prints on the adjacent computer screen.
- Only the presence of a blown-up photograph of Devarajan on the dais gave an indication.
- The simple set includes a large blackboard, festooned with the blown-up headlines used to advertise newspapers.
- Here's a blown-up shot of a detail from downtown Seattle, which is part of our test run.
3Inflated; swollen. Example sentencesExamples - The last image in that ad was the blown-up head of Geoffrey the Toys'R'Us mascot bouncing around in the parking lot.
- Blown-up dinosaurs hang from the ceiling and sit watching from book shelves.
- If you stick a blown-up balloon into a vat of melted chocolate, it'll pop in your face.
- Using the sticky tape, attach the ends of four of the lengths of string to the egg-box section and the other ends to the sides of the blown-up balloon.
- Elsewhere, desperate refugees build a raft, or use blown-up plastic bags to try to float across the river.
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