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Blow   /bloʊ/   Listen
Blow

noun
1.
A powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon.
2.
An impact (as from a collision).  Synonym: bump.
3.
An unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating.  Synonyms: black eye, reversal, reverse, setback.
4.
An unpleasant or disappointing surprise.  Synonym: shock.
5.
A strong current of air.  Synonyms: blast, gust.
6.
Street names for cocaine.  Synonyms: C, coke, nose candy, snow.
7.
Forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth.  Synonym: puff.  "He blew out all the candles with a single puff"
verb
(past blew; past part. blown; pres. part. blowing)
1.
Exhale hard.
2.
Be blowing or storming.
3.
Free of obstruction by blowing air through.
4.
Be in motion due to some air or water current.  Synonyms: be adrift, drift, float.  "The boat drifted on the lake" , "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea" , "The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
5.
Make a sound as if blown.
6.
Shape by blowing.
7.
Make a mess of, destroy or ruin.  Synonyms: ball up, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil.  "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
8.
Spend thoughtlessly; throw away.  Synonyms: squander, waste.  "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
9.
Spend lavishly or wastefully on.
10.
Sound by having air expelled through a tube.
11.
Play or sound a wind instrument.
12.
Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation.  Synonyms: fellate, go down on, suck.
13.
Cause air to go in, on, or through.
14.
Cause to move by means of an air current.
15.
Spout moist air from the blowhole.
16.
Leave; informal or rude.  Synonyms: shove along, shove off.  "The children shoved along" , "Blow now!"
17.
Lay eggs.
18.
Cause to be revealed and jeopardized.  "The double agent was blown by the other side"
19.
Show off.  Synonyms: bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt.
20.
Allow to regain its breath.
21.
Melt, break, or become otherwise unusable.  Synonyms: blow out, burn out.  "The fuse blew"
22.
Burst suddenly.  "We blew a tire"



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"Blow" Quotes from Famous Books



... still all athirst for action. How dumb and [233] stupid the place seemed, in its useless defiance of conquerors, anxious, for reasons not indeed apparent, but which they were undoubtedly within their rights in holding to, not to blow it at once into the air—the steeple, the perky weathercock—to James Stokes in particular, always eloquent in action, longing for heroic effort, and ready to pay its price, maddened now by the palpable imposture in front of him morning after morning, ...
— Miscellaneous Studies: A Series of Essays • Walter Horatio Pater
... temporised. "She said her head was bad and that she felt she'd be the better for a blow." ...
— The Judge • Rebecca West
... gentle. Love may hold others back from duty, and thus may wreck destinies. We need to guard against meddling with God's discipline, softening the experience that he means to be hard, sheltering our friend from the wind that he intends to blow chillingly. All summer does not make a good zone to live in; we need autumn and winter to temper the heat, and keep vegetation from luxuriant overgrowth. The best thing we can do for others is not always to take their load or do ...
— Making the Most of Life • J. R. Miller
... could not deceive. Selvagee! you know very well, that if it comes on to blow pretty hard, the First Lieutenant will be sure to interfere with his paternal authority. Every man and every boy in the frigate knows, Selvagee, ...
— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville
... blow, a very little one scarcely counts Because he stood so high with her now he feared the fall Hope which lies in giving men a dose of hysterics If I love you, need you care what anybody else thinks Pride is the God of Pagans Read one ...
— Quotations from the Works of George Meredith • David Widger


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