buoy up

v 1: make more cheerful [syn: {lighten}]

2: make more cheerful [syn: {lighten}] [ant: {weigh down}]

3: keep afloat: "The life vest buoyed him up" [syn: {buoy}]

blow up

1. Of a scientific computation: to become unstable. It

suggests that the computation is diverging so rapidly that it

will soon overflow or at least go {nonlinear}.

2. {blow out}.

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