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Meaning of BLOW in English

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

Use in sentences of BLOW

    Meaning of BLOW in English

    • To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
    • To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
    • A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
    • A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
    • A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
    • The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
    • To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
    • To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
    • To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
    • To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
    • To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
    • To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
    • To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
    • To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
    • To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
    • To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
    • To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
    • To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
    • To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
    • To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
    • To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
    • To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
    • To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
    • A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
    • The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
    • The spouting of a whale.
    • A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
    • An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.

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