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• To blow up a photograph is to magnify its size
• To blow up up an object may mean to destroy something with explosives or to otherwise fail catastrophically
• To blow up can also mean to inflate, as in to blow up a balloon
• To blow up in financial slang is to lose enough money to have a negative impact on one's career (to be ruined, fired, etc.)

Blow up may also refer to: This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Preparing C-4 explosive This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ... Catastrophic failure is a sudden and total (or near total) failure which not only cannot be recovered from (the system which experiences it may be destroyed beyond any reasonable possibility of repair), but also frequently causes injury, death, or significant damage to other, often unrelated systems. ... Balloons, like greeting cards or flowers, are given for special occasions. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses, and organizations raise, allocate, and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ...

• Blowup, a film by Michelangelo Antonioni
• Blowing up, a mathematical operation