blowing up

1. 1.

   a severe rebuke

   “he deserved the berating that the coach gave him”

   Synonymsberating

   Broaderrebuke

Questions about blowing up

What does blowing up mean?

blowing up means "a severe rebuke".

What is another word for blowing up?

Close synonyms include berating. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blowing up a common word?

blowing up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.