blowverb
uk/bləʊ/us/bloʊ/blew, blownblow verb (SEND OUT AIR)
B1 [ I or T ] to move and make currents of air, or to be moved or make something move on a current of air:
C2 [ I or T ] to make a sound by forcing air out of your mouth and through an instrument, or to make a sound when someone does this:
[ T ] to blow air down a tube into a piece of heated soft glass, in order to shape it into an object:
B1 to force air from your lungs and through your nose to clear it
to kiss your hand and blow on it in the direction of someone
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- To play the recorder, blow gently into the mouthpiece.
- A light wind was blowing.
- The storm uprooted trees and blew fences down.
- Strong winds blew the ship ashore.
- The referee blew his whistle for half-time.
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Wind & winds
- airstream
- anemometer
- blast
- breeze
- choppy
- drafty
- dust devil
- El Niño
- eolian
- hurricane
- jet stream
- prevailing
- sigh
- southeasterly
- southerly
- the Beaufort scale
- tornado
- westerly
- wind gauge
- windsock
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blow verb (DESTROY)
[ T ] to cause something to be destroyed by a bomb, technical failure, etc.:
[ I or T ] If an electrical fuse (= a short, thin piece of wire) blows, or if something electrical blows a fuse, the device it is in stops working because it is receiving too much electricity.
[ I ] informal If a tyre blows, it suddenly gets a hole in it and goes flat.
to seriously damage something by making it explode:
More examples
- There was an overload on the electrical circuit and the fuse blew.
- My hairdrier's stopped working - I think the fuse has blown.
- The car was blown to bits.
- So many films nowadays involve everyone and everything being blown to smithereens.
- There was a picture in the paper of a man whose leg had been blown off.
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Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- costly
- fall in
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth down
- sacrifice
- sink
- stave
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- wipe
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blow verb (SPEND)
[ T ] informal to spend a large amount of money, especially on things that are not really necessary:
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Paying money
- ante
- chargeable
- congestion charge
- demurrage
- disburse
- discharge
- disgorge
- fork
- fork out sth
- overspend
- pay up
- pick up the bill/tab idiom
- put sth down 1
- repayable
- self-financing
- sink
- spring
- square
- tip
- worth
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Phrasal verb(s)
blownoun
uk/bləʊ/us/bloʊ/blow noun (HIT)
C2 [ C ] a hard hit with a hand or a weapon:
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- The blow caught him right on the bridge of his nose.
- He planted a blow on his opponent's jaw.
- The police said that it was the blow that had been delivered to her head that had killed her.
- Feeling muzzy from the blow on his head, he got up very slowly.
- She died after receiving a blow to the head.
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Hitting and beating
- a bunch of fives idiom
- a rap on/over the knuckles idiom
- at-risk
- bang up sb/sth
- bashing
- bunch
- conk
- deck
- hell
- kick
- knock
- knock sb's block off idiom
- lay
- lay sb out
- licking
- mess sb up
- pound
- pummel
- swing
- thump
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blow noun (BAD EVENT)
C2 [ C ] an unexpected event that has a damaging effect on someone or something:
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- The news came as a crushing blow.
- He's lost his job, but the redundancy money will cushion the blow.
- The latest trade figures have dealt a severe blow to hopes of an early economic recovery.
- The news came as a shocking blow.
- The latest opinion polls have administered a severe blow to the party.
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Difficult things and people
- a (heavy) cross to bear idiom
- a bitter pill (to swallow) idiom
- a hard/tough nut to crack idiom
- albatross
- bane
- chill
- equation
- handicap
- headache
- hiccup
- hot potato
- impediment
- job
- labyrinth
- liability
- the chill wind of sth idiom
- the hard way idiom
- the sharp end
- the/a devil of a sth idiom
- thorn in your flesh/side idiom
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blow noun (AIR)
[ C usually singular ] an act of blowing:
[ C usually singular ] UK old-fashioned a walk in the fresh air:
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Noises made by the body
- belch
- break
- break wind idiom
- burp
- clear
- cough
- fart
- footfall
- footstep
- grumble
- hiccup
- sneeze
- snore
- snort
- wheeze
- wind 1
- yawn
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blow noun (DRUG)
[ U ] UK slang → cannabis
[ U ] US slang → cocaine
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Specific types of drug
- amyl nitrite
- antiretroviral
- blunt
- cisplatin
- coke
- corticosteroid
- designer drug
- dope
- downer
- hash
- junk
- marijuana
- methamphetamine
- mind-altering
- narcotic
- pep pill
- popper
- skunkweed
- stimulant
- weed
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