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blow someone awayinformal 1Kill someone using a firearm: the heroine straps on a gun and blows away the bad guys...- I grew up on the streets of Pittsburgh and I learned to treat everybody with respect because if not, one day that might be the guy who draws a gun on you and blows you away.
- Two weeks after Gary had thumped me, his ten-year-old brother blew him away with a pump action shot gun, which his dad kept locked in the boot of an old BMW in his garage.
- Yet, I still want to get even, to go back there and blow them away, Smoke 'em, do a number on them, get that supervisor's supervisor in hot water with her superiors.
2Impress someone greatly: I’m blown away by his new poem...- ‘I want something that blows me away, something that surprises me, something that brings me to tears or sings so beautifully I want to read it over again and again,’ he says.
- It's no surprise that they absolutely blew me away at the Bowery.
- If that was a surprise for Abe, he was blown away with what happened next.
Synonyms impress, overwhelm, bedazzle, strike, move, stir, affect, touch, sweep someone off their feet, awe, overawe, leave speechless, take someone's breath away, spellbind, hypnotize, fascinate, take aback, daze, stagger, floor, amaze, astonish informal bowl over, knock out See parent entry: blow |