blow
Meaning
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- To produce an air current.
- To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- To be propelled by an air current.
- To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- To create or shape by blowing.
- To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- To clear of contents by forcing air through.
- To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
- To make a sound as the result of being blown.
- To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
- To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
- To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
- To blow from a gun.
- To cause the sudden destruction of.
- To suddenly fail destructively.
- (slang) To recklessly squander.
- (informal) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
- (slang) To be very undesirable.
- To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
- (slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
- To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
- (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
- (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
- (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
- To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
- To talk loudly; boast; brag.
- (slang) To slander, insult, critique or discredit (someone); to reprimand or scold (someone).
- (slang) To expose, or inform on.
- (informal,slang) To sing.
- To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
- (colloquial,slang) To flatulate or defecate.
Concepts
blow
stroke
hit
strike
puff
punch
knock
shock
blast
smack
bump
slap
fan
beat
kick
blow on
whack
play
thump
collision
thrust
blow out
bang
bloom
gust
beating
burn out
squander
of wind
break
trauma
cuff
explode
dissipate
rap
wind
sound
waste
clout
snort
swipe
push
open
bluster
boast
brag
vaunt
coke
nose candy
snow
cut
jab
fist
whiff
blowing
botch
bungle
flub
screw up
spoil
slapdash
slapping
spank
spanking
flutter
burst
striking
expand
tout
gas
gasconade
shoot a line
swash
fellate
go down on
suck
fuck up
box
waft
dash
hurt
rage
percussion
wound
whistle
impact
breathe
break up
smash
splurge
clash
crack
blossom
slam
poke
blow into
spit
spout
spray
spread
blare
flap
lash
stripe
swat
stab
breathe out
bruise
exhale
shove along
shove off
be adrift
drift
float
ball up
bollix up
bobble
bodge
bollix
bollocks
bollocks up
botch up
bumble
fluff
foul up
fumble
louse up
mess up
mishandle
muck up
muff
C
black eye
reversal
reverse
setback
boasting
bragging
pelt
pipe
give
puff out
betray
disclose
reveal
uncloak
uncover
unfold
unveil
coup
pant
attack
blow off
flow
inflate
swell
flop
fuckup
screwup
go
blow-dry
bust
die
fragment
bash
belt
throw
fly
swing
catch
winnow
break open
ring
wanton away
whipping
blow up
blown
drafty
draughty
jolt
insufflate
moderate breeze
chestnut
crash
blunder
be discharged
shoot off
split
abate
disappear gradually
evanesce
fade
come up
toot
smiting
damage
eject
emit
spurt
diffuse
disseminate
pervade
batter
wave
explosion
blow gently
blow softly and regularly
thwack
exsufflate
uppercut
produce sound by blowing
breathe hard
fill with wind
receive a shock
birr
combat
calamity
boaster
cocaine
fume
ruin
flowering
flower
flourish
clunk
oner
planter
pop
pulsation
slug
tuck
blow against
compress
crowd together
fill
press
let out
send out
jerk
bespeak
divulge
mitt
monsoon
strong breeze
battery
flick
tit
whop
affront
assault
derogation
indignity
insult
invective
mortification
outrage
slur
umbrage
fizz
hiss
whiz
zip
blatancy
flurry
deflection
converting
palm of hand
blow one’s nose
breathe on
fan the fire
grow
force
sweep
clap
drive
to
ventilate
dust
stroke of fate
blow of fate
stroke of misfortune
fritter away
nose blow
pull out
smoke
break apart
decay
decompose
demulsify
disband
disintegrate
dissociate
disunify
fall apart
go bad
splinter
split up
breath
aspirate
draw in
sop up
suck in
suck up
suckle
suction
take in
take up
campaign
concussion
impingement
knockdown
Coke
high wind
airlift
lift
loft
aviate
fell
flit
rack
wing
show off
bugger off
deliquesce
dissolve
scarper
capture
hitting
shot
lay
loiter
burn
combust
fry
sear
strike out
sunburn
bare
bewray
elicit
expose
expound
exteriorize
muckrake
out
talk
tell
trip up
unclothe
undeceive
undrape
unearth
unmask
break loose
break out
break through
burst out
come out
erupt
puncture
push through
gale
break down
brecciate
chip off
separate
conk
cut out
go out
stall
break away
shatter
chime
peal
toll
busk
call
call in
call up
fiddle
phone
play back
spiel
strike up
telephone
shower
fool
piddle
spend
trifle
trifle away
wanton
groan
apply
break off
feel
sharp
touch
breathe heavily
huff
hard-hit
chop
protrude
storm
crawl
creep
make fly
light
move along
run along
blow nose
gush out
spit out
squeeze out
strip
punishment
fit
raid
shot stroke
breeze
babble out
cough up
spill the beans
be on at
abuse
ban
bawl out
be after
be at
be down on
berate
bring up
bullyrag
bum-rap
call down
call over the coals
cant
chastise
chide
clobber
comb
comb down
come down on
darn
drub
get after
get at
give somebody hell
give someone hell
growl
haze
inveigh
inveigh against
jump on
lay someone out
let into
mag
miscall
objurgate
rail
rail against
revile
rip into
row
scold
scold for
scorch
skin
slang
slangwhang
strafe
swear
swear at
take apart
tee off
throw mud at
throw up
whip
yaff
blast on someone
chew somebody's ass out
get on somebody's ass
lay out someone
sling mud at
сall names
go off at smb.
give fits
bust chops
give somebody shit
trash someone
cut a beef
utter imprecations
tell someone Off
claw away
deal it out
go crook
ass-kick
let go with
give someone a tongue-lashing
ballock somebody
bollock somebody
give curry
ride a pony
slap someone's wrist
apoplexy
learn
steal
take
bray
give head
dint
fire
smoke tobacco
tobacco
lashes
pig
punish
thrash
first
harm
kill
swell up
blows
hot wind
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/bləʊ/
Etymology
From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
Cognate with German
blähen
Cognate with German
einbläuen
Cognate with Dutch
bloeien
Cognate with German
blühen
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