"blowing up" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blowings up [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|blowings up}} blowing up (plural blowings up)
  1. (colloquial) Explosion. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-blowing_up-en-noun-Z5cbfdlf

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} blowing up
  1. present participle and gerund of blow up Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: blow up
    Sense id: en-blowing_up-en-verb-QGYLPw9U Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 95

Inflected forms

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