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blow

  • verb
  • /bləʊ/

To produce an air current.

Other meanings

  1. To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.

    “Blow the dust off that book and open it up.”

  2. To be propelled by an air current.

    “The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.”

Example sentences

  • “The poor kid felt the blow he was given.”

    Tatoeba · AmarMecheri · CC0
  • “The price blows my mind.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Word history

From Old English "blāwan" (to blow, breathe, inflate, sound).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “blow” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.