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blowing up

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Noun1.blowing upblowing up - a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him"
rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"


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He signalized his departure from California by blowing up Fort Mason.
Every cloud that is blowing up here--and they all make for the highest point--is bound to develop into a flash of lightning.
The killing of the elder Jenkins, shortly followed by that of his brother, the mutilation of James Murdoch, the blowing up of the Staphouse family, and the murder of the Stendals all followed hard upon one another in the same terrible winter.
 
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