Definition of "blowing up" []

• Present participle of blow up. (verb)

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• "Everybody craves the incomparable power of being a Gladiatorthe potent experience of rising to the heavens, however briefly, igniting and blowing up any dark, hidden places within."
• "But the brutal pro-Marxist rebels who were slaughtering innocent peasants, burning and pillaging their crops, destroying electrical power lines, and blowing up dams in their campaign to wrest control of the country were infinitely more barbaric."
• "Planting time bombs, blowing up a key facility under construction, endangering lives—"