Blow

  • 61blow — I [[t]blo͟ʊ[/t]] VERB USES ♦♦ blows, blowing, blew, blown (Please look at category 15 to see if the expression you are looking for is shown under another headword.) 1) VERB When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves. A chill wind blew at the top… …

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  • 62blow — I. /bloʊ / (say bloh) noun 1. a sudden stroke with hand, fist, or weapon. 2. a sudden shock, or a calamity or reverse. 3. a sudden attack or drastic action. 4. a stroke of the shears made in shearing a sheep. 5. an outcrop of discoloured quartz… …

  • 63blow — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 hard knock that hits sb/sth ADJECTIVE ▪ hard, heavy, nasty, painful, powerful, severe, sharp, stinging, violent …

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  • 64blow — I n. 1) to deal, deliver, strike a blow (he dealt us a severe blow) 2) to heap, rain blows on smb. 3) to come to blows; to exchange blows 4) to take a blow (the boxer took several blows to the head) 5) to cushion; deflect, parry, ward off; dodge… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 65blow — 1 past tense blew, past participle blown verb 1 (I) WIND MOVING if the wind or a current of air blows, it moves: A cold breeze was blowing. 2 WIND MOVING STH (intransitive usually + adv/prep, transitive) to move something, or to be moved, by the… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 66blow —   1. As air current. Puhi, pā, papā, pā makani, ulu, unu (wind); pūhihio, makani, pua;    ♦ blow softly, ani, aniani, ōaniani, māaniani, hiohio, ōnini, pua aheahe, ahe, kōaheahe, ōaheahe, papaiāulu;    ♦ blow in gusts, hio, kākala;    ♦ blow… …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 67blow — 1. v. & n. v. (past blew; past part. blown) 1 a intr. (of the wind or air, or impersonally) move along; act as an air current (it was blowing hard). b intr. be driven by an air current (waste paper blew along the gutter). c tr. drive with an air… …

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  • 68blow — I [[t]bloʊ[/t]] n. 1) a sudden, hard stroke with a hand, fist, or weapon 2) a sudden shock, calamity, reversal, etc 3) a sudden attack or drastic action • come to blows Etymology: 1425–75; late ME blaw, N form repr. later blowe II blow… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 69blow — {{11}}blow (n.1) hard hit, mid 15c., blowe, from northern and East Midlands dialects, perhaps from M.Du. blouwen to beat, a common Germanic word of unknown origin (Cf. Ger. bleuen, Goth. bliggwan to strike ). Influenced in English by BLOW (Cf.… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 70blow — 01. The wind [blows] cold across the plains in winter. 02. He [blew] a tire about six minutes into the race and had to stop. 03. I really [blew] it with my new girlfriend. I forgot her birthday and then called her by my old girlfriend s name. 04 …

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