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Meaning Of Blow

  1. v. i.
    To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
  2. v. t.
    To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
  3. n.
    A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
  4. n.
    A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
  5. n.
    A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
  6. n.
    The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
  7. v. i.
    To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
  8. v. i.
    To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
  9. v. i.
    To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  10. v. i.
    To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
  11. v. i.
    To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
  12. v. i.
    To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
  13. v. i.
    To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
  14. v. t.
    To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
  15. v. t.
    To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
  16. v. t.
    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.
  17. v. t.
    To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
  18. v. t.
    To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
  19. v. t.
    To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
  20. v. t.
    To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
  21. v. t.
    To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  22. v. t.
    To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
  23. v. t.
    To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
  24. n.
    A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
  25. n.
    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.
  26. n.
    The spouting of a whale.
  27. n.
    A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
  28. n.
    An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.



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