blow away
verb
blew away; blown away; blowing away; blows away
transitive verb
1
: to dissipate or remove as if with a current of air
their doubts were blown away
2
: to kill by gunfire : shoot dead
3
: to impress very strongly and usually favorably
4
: to defeat soundly
blew their rivals away in the first game
Synonyms
- annihilate
- bomb
- bury
- clobber
- cream
- drub
- dust
- flatten
- paste
- rout
- shellac
- skin
- skunk
- smoke [slang]
- smother
- snow under
- thrash
- trim
- tromp
- trounce
- wallop
- wax [slang]
- whip
- whomp
- whop
- whap
- whup
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Example Sentences
the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion
Word History
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
blew away
verb
as in snowed under
to defeat by a large margin the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- snowed under
- buried
- bombed
- whipped
- ran rings around
- overcame
- upset
- ate alive
- wiped the floor with
- flattened
- wiped the ground with
- beat the pants off
- beat
- pasted
- skinned
- mastered
- annihilated
- ran circles around
- trimmed
- dusted
- topped
- smothered
- clobbered
- smoked
- overwhelmed
- threw
- routed
- thrashed
- shellacked
- creamed
- trounced
- whupped
- knocked off
- surpassed
- knocked over
- destroyed
- conquered
- exceeded
- waxed
- took
- whapped
- succeeded
- walloped
- swept
- tromped
- scored
- capped
- drubbed
- skunked
- triumphed (over)
- whomped
- dispatched
- nosed out
- whopped
- prevailed (over)
- licked
- crushed
- subdued
- slaughtered
- finished
- surmounted
- subjugated
- vanquished
- hurdled
- overmatched
- transcended
- eclipsed
- overpowered
- won (against)
- bested
- worsted
- overthrew
- upended
- outstripped
- outshone
- did in
- outdid
- aced (out)
- bettered
- excelled
- flourished
- outdistanced
- overtopped
- broke
- overbore
- edged (out)
- sunk
- pipped
- outshined
- sank
- outfought
