blown-up

[ blohn-uhp ]

/ ˈbloʊnˈʌp /

(of a picture, photograph, image, etc.) enlarged.

damaged or destroyed by demolition, explosion, etc.: blown-up bridges.

(of a ball, balloon, etc.) inflated.

overexpanded; unduly large: a blown-up sense of importance.

Origin of blown-up

First recorded in 1860–65

On either side of Bratton and the other officials were two blown-up photos set upon easels.

The 9/11 Scam: New York’s Disability Disgrace |Michael Daly |January 8, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I noticed a blown-up black-and-white photograph on the wall beside where we were sitting.

At the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Steady Drip of Toxic Trouble |Eric Nusbaum |February 24, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
She pointed proudly to a blown-up photo of 41 and 43 on the wall as she asked me to sit down.

How I Got Interrogated by the Bushies |John Avlon |January 15, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
The dug-out is still dug out, and bits of blown-up guns all round about.

The Secrets of a Kuttite |Edward O. Mousley

Uncle Wiggily looked in the front window of the store and saw some blown-up balloons that had not burst.

Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard |Howard R. Garis
Though he knew no fear, his nerves were taut as a blown-up balloon.

Swamp Cat |James Arthur Kjelgaard
If you take a blown-up bladder under water and let go of it, it will fly up to the surface of the water and will swim on it.

Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales |Leo Tolstoy
To each of these they had fastened by a long thong, as they were paddling out, a blown-up bladder.

Through the Yukon Gold Diggings |Josiah Edward Spurr