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blow out1Be extinguished by an air current: the candles blew out...- She has Henry's arms around her at night, but still there is the blowing out of the candle and the sense of failure that darkness evokes in her.
- The candle blew out long before the legendary wind.
- The candle suddenly blew out from an unfelt draft, throwing him into darkness.
Synonyms be extinguished, go out, be put out, be doused, be quenched, stop burning, fade, die out extinguish, put out, snuff, douse, quench, smother, stifle, dampen down, choke 2(Of a tyre) puncture while the vehicle is in motion: the car went into a rubber-shredding skid when the front nearside tyre blew out...- For example, what would I do if I had a front tyre blow out at 100 mph?
- The force helicopter was also called in to keep track of the man, and at one stage officers considered using ‘stingers’ to blow out the truck's tyres and bring the vehicle to a standstill.
- A tyre blew out while he was driving his Lotus home from a Dalkeith rugby match against North Berwick.
3(Of an oil or gas well) emit gas suddenly and forcefully.Soon afterwards, he was doing maintenance work on an oilrig in Smackover, Arkansas, when the well blew out....- There are a variety of methods for controlling a well blow out and extinguishing a well fire.
- The island was seriously impacted by Hurricane Andrew, after the oil blow out restoration plans included creating marshes near the breaks in the island to stabilize the island.
4 ( blow itself out) (Of a storm) finally lose its force: figurative the recession may finally have blown itself out...- After midnight the storm finally blew itself out, and the lightless convoy moved out.
- It was three days before the storm blew itself out.
- The storm blew itself out in the small hours, woke up for a grumble or two a little after first light, and has stayed quiet for the most part since.
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