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Etymology 1

From Old English blāwan (“‘make an air current, sound a wind instrument’”) from Proto-Germanic *blæanan from Proto-Indo-European *bhle- "to swell, blow up".

Verb

Infinitive to blow

Third person singular blows

Simple past blew or (dialect) blowed

Past participle blown or (dialect) blowed

Present participle blowing

to blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew or (dialect) blowed, past participle blown or (dialect) blowed)

  1. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
    • 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, act 3, sc. 2:
      "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!"
  2. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
    Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
  3. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
    The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.
  4. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
  5. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
  6. (Should we delete() this redundant sense?) (transitive) To play a musical instrument, such as a horn or woodwind.
    • 1996, Ike Turner, interviewed by Terri Gross on "Fresh Air", National Public Radio (US):
      "He was blowing saxophone for me."
  7. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
    In the harbor, the ships' horns blew.
  8. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
    There's nothing more thrilling to the whale watcher than to see a whale surface and blow.
    There she blows! (i.e. "I see a whale spouting!")
  9. (intransitive) To explode.
    Get away from that burning gas tank! It's about to blow!
  10. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
    The demolition squad neatly blew the old hotel up.
    The aerosol can was blown to bits.
  11. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
    He blew the tires and the engine.
  12. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
    He tried to sprint, but his ligaments blew and he was barely able to walk to the finish line.
  13. (Should we delete() this redundant sense?) (transitive) To destroy (an electric component) by passing excessive electric current through it.
    The TV shorted out and blew its fuse.
  14. (Should we delete() this redundant sense?) (intransitive, of an electric component) To be destroyed by such a current.
    When I turned the lamp on, its bulb blew.
    Fuses are designed to blow in the event of a short circuit.
  15. (intransitive, slang) To be very undesirable (see also suck).
    This blows!
  16. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
    I managed to blow $1000 at blackjack in under an hour.
    I blew $35 thou on a car.
    We blew an opportunity to get benign corporate sponsorship.
  17. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate.
    Who did you have to blow to get those backstage passes?
  18. (transitive) To leave.
    Let's blow this joint.
Derived terms
terms derived from blow (verb)
Translations
to produce an air current
  • Korean: 불다 (bulda)
  • Kurdish: فو
  • Latin: flo la(la), sufflo la(la)
  • Macedonian: дува mk(mk) (dúva)
  • Polish: dmuchać pl(pl)
  • Portuguese: soprar pt(pt), assoprar pt(pt)
  • Romanian: sufla ro(ro)
  • Romansch: sufflar rm(rm)
  • Russian: дуть (dut') (impf.), дунуть (dúnut') (pf.); сморкаться (smorkát's'a) (impf.), сморкнуться (smorknút's'a) (pf.) blow the nose
  • Scottish Gaelic: séid
  • Sicilian: ciusciari
  • Slovene: pihati sl(sl)
  • Spanish: soplar es(es)
  • Vietnamese: thổi; phù, phù phù (to blow on food)
to propel by an air current
  • Armenian: փչել hy(hy) (p'čel)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: trad. 刮走, simpl. 刮走 (pinyin: guā zǒu)
  • Danish: blæse da(da), puste da(da)
  • Dutch: blazen nl(nl)
  • Finnish: puhaltaa fi(fi)
  • German: blasen, wegblasen, fortblasen, hinfortblasen, pusten, wegpusten
  • Korean: 불다 (bulda)
  • Polish: zdmuchnąć
  • Russian: сдувать (sduvát') (impf.), сдуть (sdut') (pf.)
  • Vietnamese: thở vi(vi), thổi vi(vi)
to be propelled by an air current
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: trad. 隨風飄動, simpl. 随风飘动 (pinyin: suí fēng piāo dòng)
  • Danish: blæse da(da)
  • Finnish: lentää fi(fi), lennähtää fi(fi), lennellä fi(fi)
  • German: wehen de(de)
  • Korean: 불리다 (bullida)
  • Macedonian: се вее mk(mk) (se vée)
  • Vietnamese: bay vi(vi)
to create or shape by blowing
  • Korean: 불다 (bulda)
  • Macedonian: дува mk(mk) (dúva)
  • Russian: выдувать (vyduvát') (impf.), выдуть (výdut') (pf.)
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
  • Vietnamese: thổi
to blow a musical instrument to makeit give a sound
to play a musical instrument by blowing
to make a sound as if being blown
(of a cetacean) exhale visibly through the spout the seawater
  • Korean: 뿜다 (ppumda)
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
  • Vietnamese: phun nước
to explode
  • Armenian: պայթել hy(hy) (payt'el)
  • Bulgarian: взривявам се bg(bg), експлодирам bg(bg)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: trad. 爆炸, simpl. 爆炸 (pinyin: bào zhà)
  • Dutch: springen nl(nl), ontploffen nl(nl)
  • Finnish: räjähtää fi(fi)
  • French: exploser fr(fr)
  • German: hochgehen, in die Luft gehen, explodieren
  • Hebrew: התפוצץ he(he) (hitpotzétz)
  • Japanese: 爆発する (ばくはつする, bakuhatsu-suru)
  • Korean: 터지다 (teojida)
  • Macedonian: се распрснува mk(mk) (se rasp'rsnuva)
  • Portuguese: explodir pt(pt)
  • Russian: взрываться (vzryvát's'a) (impf.), взорваться (vzorvát's'a) (pf.), взлетать на воздух (vzletát' na vózduχ) (impf.), взлететь на воздух (vzlet'ét' na vózduχ) (pf.)
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
  • Vietnamese: nổ vi(vi)
to cause to explode
  • Finnish: räjäyttää fi(fi)
to cause sudden destruction
to fail suddenly destructively
to destroy by electric current
to be destroyed by electric current
be very undesirable
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
  • Vietnamese: tẽn tò vi(vi), tẽn vi(vi), thẹn thò vi(vi), thẹn vi(vi)
to squander
  • Korean: 날리다 (nallida)
  • Russian: продувать (produvát') (impf.), продуть (prodút') (pf.)
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
  • Vietnamese: xài phí, phung phí
to fellate
  • Armenian: ծծել hy(hy) (ççel)
  • Bulgarian: духам bg(bg)
  • Catalan: llepar
  • Dutch: pijpen nl(nl)
  • Finnish: ottaa suihin fi(fi)
  • French: sucer, tailler une pipe
  • Korean: 아양떨다 (ayang-tteolda)
  • Macedonian: пуши mk(mk) (púši), дудла mk(mk) (dúdla)
  • Polish: robić loda, lizać pałę, obciągać loda, obciągać fiuta, obciągać chuja
  • Russian: сосать (sosát') (impf.), отсосать (otsosát') (pf.)
  • Serbian:
    • Cyrillic: пушити
    • Roman: pušiti
  • Spanish: chupar es(es)
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
to leave
  • Korean: 그만두다 (geuman-duda)
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
  • Vietnamese: bỏ đi, chuồn
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intransitive meanings

  • Esperanto: blovi
  • Indonesian: meniup, meledakkan
  • Telugu: ఊదు (oodu), కొట్టుకొనిపోవు (koTTukonipOvu), వీచు (veecu)

Noun

Singular blow

Plural blows

blow (plural blows)

  1. A strong wind.
    We're having a bit of a blow this afternoon.
  2. (British, informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
    The players were able to get a blow during the last timeout.
  3. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
Translations
strong wind
chance to catch one’s breath
  • Russian: передышка (p'er'edýška) f.
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
cocaine — see cocaine

Etymology 2

Middle English blowe, blaw. (Akin to Old High German bliuwan (“‘to beat", "strike’”) (Gernam bläuen, Gothic bliggwan))

Noun

Singular blow

Plural blows

blow (plural blows)

  1. The act of striking or hitting.
    A fabricator is used to direct a sharp blow to the surface of the stone.
    During an exchange to end round 13, Duran landed a blow to the mid-section.
  2. An unfortunate occurrence.
    A further blow to the group came in 1917 when Thomson died while canoeing in Algonquin Park.
Derived terms
terms derived from blow (noun)
  • body blow
Translations
act of striking or hitting
  • Armenian: հարված hy(hy) (harvaç)
  • Bulgarian: удар bg(bg) m.
  • Dutch: slag nl(nl) m.
  • Esperanto: bato eo(eo)
  • Finnish: isku fi(fi)
  • French: coup fr(fr) m.
  • German: Schlag de(de) m.
unfortunate occurrence
  • Armenian: հարված hy(hy) (harvaç)
  • Dutch: slag nl(nl) m., tegenslag nl(nl) m.
  • Finnish: takaisku fi(fi), isku fi(fi)
  • German: Rückschlag de(de) m.
  • Macedonian: удар mk(mk) (údar) m.
  • Russian: удар ru(ru) (udár) m.
  • Swahili: panchi sw(sw)
  • Telugu: దెబ్బ (2)

Etymology 3

Middle English blowen from Old English blōwan

Verb

Infinitive to blow

Third person singular blows

Simple past blew

Past participle blown

Present participle blowing

to blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)

  1. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
Translations
blossom — see blossom

Noun

Singular blow

Plural blows

blow (plural blows)

  1. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
  2. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
  3. A bloom, state of flowering.
    roses in full blow.
Related terms
Translations
mass or display of flowers
  • Finnish: kukkaloisto fi(fi)
display of anything brilliant
state of flowering

 

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