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blow1
verb blew (past tense), blown (past participle), blowed (past participle only in sense 12), blowing (present participle)
- intr
1. Said of a current of air or wind, etc: to be moving, especially rapidly.
tr & intr
2. To move or be moved by a current of air or wind, etc.
- Thesaurus: waft, flutter, whisk, fling, whirl, flap, wave, buffet.
- Form: blow along (often)
- Form: blow down
4. To form or shape (eg bubbles, glass) by blowing air from the mouth.
5. To shatter or destroy something by an explosion.
- Form: blow something off (often)
- Form: blow something out
- Form: blow something in
- Form: blow something up
7. To clear something by blowing through it.
- Example: blow one's nose
- To make (an electric fuse) melt and so interrupt the circuit;
8b. colloq
- Said of an electric fuse: to melt, causing an interruption in the flow of current.
- Form: blow out (also)
10. Slang to spoil or bungle (an opportunity, etc).
- Example: He had his chance, and he blew it
- To spend a large amount of money, especially quickly or recklessly.
- Thesaurus: spend, waste, squander, lay out, pay out.
- Often used in mild curses, expressions of annoyance, astonishment, etc: to damn, curse or blast
- Example: Blow the expense, let's get a taxi
- Example: Well I'll be blowed, it's my old friend Pat!
- To disclose or give away (something secret or confidential).
- Form: blow the gaff (often)
- Form: blow one's cover
- Form: blow someone's cover
tr & intr
14. To leave (a place) quickly and suddenly.
intr
15. To breathe heavily.
- Example: puffing and blowing after the jog
- Example: There she blows!
- 1. An act or example of blowing.
2. A spell of exposure to fresh air.
- Example: Let's go for a blow on the cliffs
- 1. ! expressing annoyance; damn!
- Form: blow it (also)
- colloq
To keep changing one's mind about (an idea, plan, person, etc), sometimes favouring or showing enthusiasm towards it or them, and sometimes opposing or showing no enthusiasm.
- slang
To reveal one's or someone's true identity.
- slang
To become or make someone become intoxicated or ecstatic under the influence of a drug or of some exhilarating experience.
- colloq
To praise oneself and one's own abilities and achievements.
- To destroy it completely.
- colloq
To explode in anger; to lose one's temper.
- (rit)
slang
To give away a secret; to inform or blab.
- colloq
To inform on them, usually as they are engaged in something illegal or fraudulent.
- colloq
To bring (something deceitful or illegal, etc) to an abrupt end by exposing it.
- (rit)
slang
Expressions of surprise, etc (see verb 12 above).
Phrasal Verb: blow someone away
- To murder them with a gun. 2 to surprise and excite them.
- Example: The percussion in the second movement just blew me away
- To remove it by blowing.To disprove (eg a hypothesis, theory, etc).
- To turn up casually or unexpectedly. See also blow-in.
- Said of a tyre: to burst; to puncture suddenly and forcibly when in use;Said of an electric fuse: to melt or blow (see verb 8b above);Said of a storm, etc: to let up, or become weaker or extinguished. See also blow-out.
- To put out (a flame, etc) by blowing.To send (a window, etc) forcibly outwards as the result of an explosion.
- Said of an incident, quarrel, threat, storm, etc: to pass by, especially without having any harmful or lasting effect; to die down or come to an end.
- To leave, especially quickly or abruptly. Also shoot through.
- Said of a person: to explode in anger.To fill up or swell up with air or gas.To explode. See also verb 5 above.
- Example: The truck hit the bridge and blew up
- To lose one's temper with them.To bring about their death by way of an explosion.
- To inflate (eg a balloon).To produce a larger version of (a photograph, etc).To make it seem more serious or important than it really is.To destroy it by way of an explosion.
