upblow

1. (transitive, archaic) To inflate.Examples: "1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,” […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]"; "And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne, His belly was vpblowne with luxury;"; "With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown, And feels a Power which he believes his own;"archaictransitive

2. (transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up.Examples: "1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen, Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing."; "The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!"archaictransitive

3. (ambitransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.Examples: "The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,"; "1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28, The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew;"; "Here the rocky precipice Hurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim A blast upblown, with forcible rebuff Driveth them back,"ambitransitivearchaic