Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BLOW

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Definitions of BLOW

1. A strong wind.
2. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
3. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
4. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
5. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
6. A bloom, state of flowering.
7. The act of striking or hitting.
8. A damaging occurrence.
9. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
10. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
11. (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
12. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
13. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
14. (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
15. (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
16. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
17. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
18. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
19. (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
20. (transitive, historical, military, of a person) To blow from a gun.
21. (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
22. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
23. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
24. (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.
25. (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimesconsideredvulgar) To be very undesirable.
26. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).
27. (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
28. (transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
29. (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.
30. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
31. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
32. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
33. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
34. (dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
35. (UK, slang, archaic) To expose, or inform on.
36. (slang, informal, AAVE) To sing.
37. (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
38. (slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
39. (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
40. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
41. (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
42. (uncountable, USChicagodialectal, slang) Heroin.
43. (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
44. (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
45. (intransitive) Used to express displeasure or frustration.
46. (now, chiefly, dialectal, Northern England) Blue.
47. (AU, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
48. (AU, NZ) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
49. (television) Synonym of button
50. A surname.
51. (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.

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Examples of Using BLOW in a Sentence

• His films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987), and Mission: Impossible (1996), as well as cult favorites such as Sisters (1972), Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984), Casualties of War (1989), and Carlito's Way (1993).
• The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which King James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the new head of state.
• Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), known professionally by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer.
• The term is often associated with a sudden traumatic loss of consciousness caused by a physical blow.
• The climate of Saint Helena island can be described as tropical, marine and mild, tempered by the Benguela Current and trade winds which blow almost continuously.
• He controls an immense territory in Gaul (modern France), and delivers a major blow for the Church against the Arian heresy.
• Sources tell of a blow to Lithuanian leadership, one that the Teutonic Order could not fully make use of due to the Black Death.
• It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the center around which, from an observer looking down toward the surface of the Earth, winds blow counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern.
• The image, styles and sounds of old-school hip hop were exemplified by figures like Disco King Mario, DJ Hollywood, Grandmaster Flowers, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc, Treacherous Three, Funky Four Plus One, Kurtis Blow, The Sugarhill Gang, Melle Mel, Super-Wolf, West Street Mob, Spoonie Gee, Kool Moe Dee, Busy Bee Starski, Lovebug Starski, The Cold Crush Brothers, Warp 9, T-Ski Valley, Grandmaster Caz, Doug E.
• Travolta came to prominence starring in the sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979), followed by leading roles in Carrie (1976), Grease (1978), Urban Cowboy (1980), and Blow Out (1981).
• Within an individual city within the Northern Hemisphere, the east end is typically poorer because the prevailing winds blow from the west.
• The December 1989 United States cold wave destroyed most of the citrus groves, dealing an economic blow from which many growers could not recover.
• However, he was unable and unwilling to score a decisive blow against the Royalist army of King Charles I.
• Mladenov, Stender-Petersen: From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke”), akin to Proto-Slavic *duti (“to blow, to inflate”), *dymъ (“smoke”), perhaps originally meaning “breath, spirit”.
• The force of the blow flung him from Hector's chariot, leading Patroclus to remark that with his great "diving" ability, he could have satisfied many by diving for oysters in the "storming sea".
• While in battle with Aeneas, he is critically injured by a spear blow, but his son Lausus bravely blocks Aeneas's final blow.
• The bellows not only relieve the player from the effort needed to blow into a bag to maintain pressure, they also allow relatively dry air to power the reeds, reducing the adverse effects of moisture on tuning and longevity.
• Blow is a 2001 American biographical crime drama film directed by Ted Demme, about an American cocaine kingpin and his international network.
• The film is about an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.
• Blow died in 1832, and historians debate whether Scott was sold to Emerson before or after Blow's death.
• Six of 15 of the Mossad team were captured and convicted of complicity in the killing by the Norwegian justice system in a major blow to the intelligence agency's reputation.
• But in the first blow of King Philip's War in the area, on the evening of August 13, 1676, warriors ingratiated themselves into the stockaded trading post, then killed the elderly Hammond and his stepson as they returned for the night.
• The still nascent village experienced a devastating blow to its development on Easter, March 23, 1913, when a tornado tore through the downtown area.
• On November 12, 1970, Florence was the site of a famous scene when town authorities used 20 cases of explosives to try to blow up a dead beached whale, with unintended consequences.
• The company helped to introduce pressed glass production to America, pressing the glass into a mold where previously the technique of cut glass had been to blow it by hand.

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