The difference between Blow up and Explode
When used as verbs, blow up means to explode or be destroyed by explosion, whereas explode means to destroy with an explosion.
check bellow for the other definitions of Blow up and Explode
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Blow up as a verb (intransitive):
To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
Examples:
"Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff?"
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Blow up as a verb (transitive):
To cause (something or someone) to explode, or to destroy (something) or maim or kill (someone) by means of an explosion.
Examples:
"We had to blow up the bridge before the enemy army arrived."
"More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines."
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Blow up as a verb (transitive):
To inflate or fill with air, either by literally blowing or using an air pump.
Examples:
"For the school science project, each student will blow up a balloon and then tie it closed."
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Blow up as a verb (transitive):
To enlarge or zoom in.
Examples:
"Blow up the picture to get a better look at their faces."
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Blow up as a verb (intransitive):
To fail disastrously.
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Blow up as a verb (slang, intransitive):
To become popular very quickly.
Examples:
"This album is about to blow up; they’re being promoted on MTV."
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Blow up as a verb (slang):
To suddenly get very angry.
Examples:
"Dad blew up at me when I told him I was pregnant."
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Blow up as a verb (slang, intransitive):
To become much more fat or rotund in a short space of time.
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Blow up as a verb (transitive, dated):
To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up.
Examples:
"to blow someone up with flattery"
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Blow up as a verb (transitive, dated):
To excite.
Examples:
"to blow up a contention"
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Blow up as a verb (transitive, dated):
To scold violently.
Examples:
"to blow up a person for some offence"
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Blow up as a verb (sports):
To blow the whistle.
Examples:
"ANOTHER PENALTY: w Frickson Erazo with a high challenge in the area on the onrushing Lizio and Aguilar blows up for a spot kick. [https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/copa-america/2015/ecuador-bolivia-752823.html]"
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Blow up as a verb (cycling):
To succumb to the oxygen debt and lose the ability to maintain pace in a race.
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Blow up as a verb (slang, transitive):
To bombard with a large number of telephone calls, texts, etc.
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Blow up as a verb (slang, colloquial):
To cause a malodorous smell by flatulation or defecation
Examples:
"Don't go in there...I really blew it up."
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Explode as a verb (transitive):
To destroy with an explosion.
Examples:
"The [[assassin]] exploded the car by means of a car bomb."
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Explode as a verb (transitive):
To destroy violently or abruptly.
Examples:
"They sought to explode the myth."
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Explode as a verb (transitive):
To create an exploded view of.
Examples:
"Explode the assembly drawing so that all the fasteners are visible."
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Explode as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To disprove or debunk.
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Explode as a verb (intransitive):
To blast, to blow up, to burst, to detonate, to go off.
Examples:
"The bomb explodes."
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Explode as a verb (figuratively, intransitive):
To make a violent or emotional outburst.
Examples:
"She exploded when I criticised her hat."
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Explode as a verb (computing, programming, [[PHP]]):
To break (a delimited string of text) into several smaller strings by removing the separators.
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Explode as a verb (transitive, computing):
To decompress (data) that was previously imploded.