blow : Idioms & Phrases

• suddenly; at one effort; by a single vigorous act. "They lose a province at a blow." Dryden.

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• verb get very angry and fly into a rage
  hit the roof; flip one's lid; have kittens; fly off the handle; go ballistic; flip one's wig; hit the ceiling; throw a fit; blow one's stack; lose one's temper; combust; blow a fuse; have a fit.
  
  • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
  • Spam makes me go ballistic

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• noun a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair
  hair dryer; hair drier; hand blower; blow drier.
  

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• noun a hand-held electric blower that can blow warm air onto the hair; used for styling hair
  hair dryer; hair drier; hand blower; blow drier.
  

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• noun large usually hairy metallic blue or green fly; lays eggs in carrion or dung or wounds
  blowfly.
  

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• noun the gas leaving a generator during a blow period
  blow gas.
  

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• verb come off due to an explosion or other strong force
  

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• verb get very angry and fly into a rage
  hit the roof; flip one's lid; have kittens; fly off the handle; go ballistic; flip one's wig; hit the ceiling; throw a fit; blow one's stack; lose one's temper; combust; blow a fuse; have a fit.
  
  • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
  • Spam makes me go ballistic

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• verb melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
  blow; burn out.
  
  • The lightbulbs blew out
  • The fuse blew
• verb put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
  snuff out; extinguish; quench.
  
  • Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained
  • quench the flames
  • snuff out the candles
• verb erupt in an uncontrolled manner
  
  • The oil well blew out

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• verb surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
  take aback; shock; ball over; floor.
  
  • I was floored when I heard that I was promoted

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• verb disappear gradually
  fade; pass; evanesce; fleet; pass off.
  
  • The pain eventually passed off

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• noun a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat
  blowpipe; blowtube.
  
• noun a tube through which darts can be shot by blowing
  blowpipe; blowtube; blowgun.
  

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• verb cause to burst with a violent release of energy
  explode; detonate; set off.
  
  • We exploded the nuclear bomb
• verb make large
  enlarge; magnify.
  
  • blow up an image
• verb get very angry and fly into a rage
  hit the roof; flip one's lid; have kittens; fly off the handle; go ballistic; flip one's wig; hit the ceiling; throw a fit; blow one's stack; lose one's temper; combust; blow a fuse; have a fit.
  
  • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
  • Spam makes me go ballistic
• verb add details to
  dramatize; dramatise; embellish; pad; embroider; lard; aggrandise; aggrandize.
  
• verb burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction
  detonate; explode.
  
  • the bomb detonated at noon
  • The Molotov cocktail exploded
• verb exaggerate or make bigger
  inflate; expand; amplify.
  
  • The charges were inflated
• verb fill with gas or air
  inflate.
  
  • inflate a balloons
• verb to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
  puff up; puff; puff out.
  
  • puffed out chests

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Blow" valve`

Definitions

1. (Mach.) See Snifting valve.

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• adjective satellite providing great detail
  
  • a blow-by-blow account of the movie

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• verb dry hair with a hair dryer
  

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Blow"-off` noun

Definitions

1. A blowing off steam, water, etc.; -- Also, adj. as, a blow-off cock or pipe.
2. An outburst of temper or excitement. Colloq.

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Blow"-out` noun

Definitions

1. The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, etc., by a blast of steam.

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• noun the gas leaving a generator during a blow period
  blow gas.
  

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• noun a severe rebuke
  berating.
  
  • he deserved the berating that the coach gave him

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• adjective satellite as of a photograph; made larger
  enlarged.
  
  • the enlarged photograph revealed many details

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• noun the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
  bastard; whoreson; illegitimate; illegitimate child; love child.
  

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By"-blow` noun

Definitions

1. A side or incidental blow; an accidental blow.

   With their by-blows they did split the very stones in pieces. Bunyan.

2. An illegitimate child; a bastard.

   The Aga speedily . . . brought her [his disgraced slave] to court, together with her pretty by-blow, the present Padre Ottomano. Evelyn.

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• . (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quick, sharp blow.

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• adjective satellite fully ripe; at the height of bloom
  matured.
  
  • a full-blown rose
• adjective satellite having or displaying all the characteristics necessary for completeness
  
  • a full-blown financial crisis

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Full"-blown` adjective

Definitions

1. Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose. Denham.
2. Fully distended with wind, as a sail. Dryden.

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• the art of shaping glass, when reduced by heat to a viscid state, by inflating it through a tube.

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High"-blown` adjective

Definitions

1. Inflated, as with conceit.

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• noun a hypothetical average man
  Joe Bloggs; John Doe; man in the street.
  

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• noun unscrupulous abuse
  

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• adjective satellite intensely affecting the mind especially in producing hallucinations
  mind-bending.
  
• adjective satellite intensely affecting the mind or emotions
  
  • spending a week in the jungle was a mind-blowing experience
  • a mind-blowing horror story

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• verb affect adversely
  
  • The court ruling struck a blow at the old segregation laws

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• to blow furiously and with roaring blasts; said of the wind at sea or along the coast.
• (Naut.), to blow a gale. See Gun, n., 3.

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• (a saying derived from a fable of AEsop's), to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose.

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• to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off.
• to empty (a boiler) of water through the blow-off pipe, while under steam pressure; also, to eject (steam, water, sediment, etc.) from a boiler.

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• to vaunt one's own exploits, or sound one's own praises.

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• . (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or abusively. Low
• to extinguish by a current of air, as a candle.

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• to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over.

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• to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.
• . (a) To fill with air; to swell; as, to blow up a bladder or bubble. (b) To inflate, as with pride, self-conceit, etc.; to puff up; as, to blow one up with flattery. "Blown up with high conceits engendering pride." Milton. (c) To excite; as, to blow up a contention.(d) To burst, to raise into the air, or to scatter, by an explosion; as, to blow up a fort. (e) To scold violently; as, to blow up a person for some offense. Colloq.
• . (a) To inflate; to distend. (b) To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. Slang

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• . (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. Colloq.

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• to engage in combat; to fight; said of individuals, armies, and nations.

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