blow up vs reflate

blow up and reflate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
blow up	No	No	Yes	No
reflate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, reflate is a hyponym of blow up; that is, reflate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than blow up:

Other hyponyms of blow up include billow, heave, surge.

blow up (verb)	reflate (verb)
make large	become inflated again
exaggerate or make bigger	inflate again
to swell or cause to enlarge	raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation
cause to burst with a violent release of energy	experience reflation
fill with gas or air
burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
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get very angry and fly into a rage