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blow

Definitions


[bləʊ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (of wind) move creating an air current
(e.g: a cold breeze was blowing in off the sea)

- expel air through pursed lips
(e.g: Will took a deep breath, and blew)

- (of an explosion or explosive device) displace violently or send flying
(e.g: the blast had blown the windows out of the van)

- spend recklessly
(e.g: they blew £100,000 in just eighteen months)

- waste (an opportunity)
(e.g: he'd been given a second chance and he'd blown it)

- used in various expressions to express surprise or as a mild oath
(e.g: ‘Well, blow me’, he said, ‘I never knew that.’)

- perform fellatio on (a man)

- be extremely bad or unwelcome
(e.g: ‘This blows,’ she sighs, ‘I want it to be next week already’)

- (of flies) lay eggs in or on (something)


Phrases:
- I'll be blowed
- be blown off course
- blow a fuse
- blow chunks
- blow cold on
- blow hot and cold
- blow one's cool
- blow one's nose
- blow one's top
- blow someone a kiss
- blow someone or something out of the water
- blow someone's brains out
- blow someone's mind
- blow something out of proportion
- blow something to pieces
- blow the doors off
- blow up in one's face
- blow with the wind

Origin:
Old English blāwan, of Germanic origin; related to German blähen ‘blow up, swell’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin flare ‘blow’


[bləʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a strong wind
(e.g: we're in for a bit of a blow)

- an act of blowing an instrument
(e.g: a number of blows on the whistle)

- cannabis


Phrases:
- I'll be blowed
- be blown off course
- blow a fuse
- blow chunks
- blow cold on
- blow hot and cold
- blow one's cool
- blow one's nose
- blow one's top
- blow someone a kiss
- blow someone or something out of the water
- blow someone's brains out
- blow someone's mind
- blow something out of proportion
- blow something to pieces
- blow the doors off
- blow up in one's face
- blow with the wind

Origin:
Old English blāwan, of Germanic origin; related to German blähen ‘blow up, swell’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin flare ‘blow’


[bləʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a powerful stroke with a hand, weapon, or hard object
(e.g: he received a blow to the skull)


Phrases:
- at one blow
- come to blows
- soften the blow
- strike a blow against
- strike a blow for

Origin:
late Middle English: of unknown origin


[bləʊ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- produce flowers or be in flower
(e.g: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English blōwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bloeien and German blühen, also to bloom and blossom


[bləʊ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the state or period of flowering
(e.g: stocks in fragrant blow)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English blōwan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bloeien and German blühen, also to bloom and blossom




definition by Oxford Dictionaries




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