blow-up vs build up

blow-up

adj
  • Inflatable; able to be blown up. 

noun
  • An enlargement (e.g. of a photograph). 

  • An explosion (physical or emotional). 

build up

verb
  • To accumulate, to pile up, to increase in stages. 

  • To close up by building. 

  • To strengthen. 

  • In solitaire card games, to place a card over another card of lower value. (e.g., place 5♦ over 4♣) 

  • To erect; to construct. 

How often have the words blow-up and build up occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )