Meaning of blow in English

There was an overload on the electrical circuit and the fuse blew.
The car was blown to bits.
So many films nowadays involve everyone and everything being blown to smithereens.
There was a picture in the paper of a man whose leg had been blown off.
Technicians changing the bulb caused a short circuit that blew a fuse.

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Destroying and demolishing

annihilate
annihilation
apocalypse
bash through (something)
be sacrificed on the altar of something idiom
consume
costly
dynamite
erosion
erosional
erosionally
erosive
ruination
sabotage
saboteur
sack
sacking
scar
wipe
wreck

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blow verb (SPEND)

[ T ] informal

to spend a large amount of money, especially on things that are not really necessary:

When I got paid I blew it all on a night out.

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to spend money

spendHow much do you intend to spend on a house?
payWhen you bought the tickets, how much did you pay?
investShe's invested all her savings in the business.
pay outI've just paid out £700 to get the car fixed.
splurgeWe've just splurged on new kitchen appliances.
blowWe won a £15 million settlement in court and we blew it all in six years.

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Paying money

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Idioms

be blowed if...
blow (it)!
blow someone's brains out
blow someone's cover
blow your lid/top/stack
blow something/someone out of the water
blow someone's mind
blow your own trumpet
blow a fuse/gasket
blow hot and cold

More idioms

blow it
blow smoke up someone's arse
blow the cobwebs away
blow the gaff
blow the whistle on someone/something
I'll be blowed!

Phrasal verbs

blow someone away
blow someone/something away
blow something/someone off
blow (something) out
blow someone out
blow over
blow (someone/something) up
blow something up
blow up

blow

noun

/bləʊ/ us

/bloʊ/

blow noun (HIT)

C2 [ C ]

a hard hit with a hand or a weapon:

a sharp blow to the stomach

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The blow caught him right on the bridge of his nose.
He planted a blow on his opponent's jaw.
The police said that it was the blow that had been delivered to her head that had killed her.
Feeling muzzy from the blow on his head, he got up very slowly.
She died after receiving a blow to the head.

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Hitting and beating

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blow noun (BAD EVENT)

C2 [ C ]

an unexpected event that has a damaging effect on someone or something:

Losing his job was a severe blow to his confidence.

Her death came as a terrible blow to her parents.

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The news came as a crushing blow.
He's lost his job, but the redundancy money will cushion the blow.
The latest trade figures have dealt a severe blow to hopes of an early economic recovery.
The news came as a shocking blow.
The latest opinion polls have administered a severe blow to the party.

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Difficult things and people

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blow noun (AIR)

[ C usually singular ]

an act of blowing:

a blow on the trumpet

It took him three blows to get all the candles out.

[ C usually singular ] UK old-fashioned

a walk in the fresh air:

Shall we go out for a blow?

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Noises made by the body

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Moving gently on foot

blow noun (DRUG)

[ U ] UK slang

→ cannabis

[ U ] US slang

→ cocaine

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Specific types of drug

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Idiom

come to blows

(Definition of blow from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

blow | American Dictionary

blow

verb [ I/T ]

/bloʊ/

past tense blew us/blu/ | past participle blown us/bloʊn/

blow verb [I/T] (MAKE AIR CURRENT)

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to make a current of air, or to move something or be moved with a current of air:

[ M ] The wind blew over a garbage can (= pushed it down on its side).

[ M ] We brought in the birthday cake and watched Lisa blow out the candles.

To blow up something is to push air inside it to make it larger:

[ M ] We blew 12 balloons up for Charles’ party.

If you blow your nose, you force air through it to push out something that is blocking it, so that you can breathe better.

blow verb [I/T] (DESTROY)

to destroy something in an explosion or to be destroyed in this way:

[ T ] The gas explosion blew a huge hole in the ground.

[ M ] The explosion from the gas leak blew all the windows out.

infml To blow a sum of money is to spend it in a foolish way:

[ T ] I blew my first paycheck on a night out with my friends.

Idioms

blow it
blow your mind
blow off steam
blow something out of proportion
blow the lid off something
blow the whistle on
soften the blow

Phrasal verbs

blow away someone
blow away someone
blow off something/someone
blow over
blow up
blow up something

blow

noun [ C ]

/bloʊ/

blow noun [C] (HIT)

a hard hit with the hand or a weapon:

A sharp blow on the chest sent him spinning to the floor.

A blow is also an unexpected, harmful event:

Her death at twenty was a terrible blow to her parents.

If people come to blows, they physically fight:

The brothers almost came to blows over sharing the car.

(Definition of blow from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

blow | Business English

blow

verb [ T ]

/bləʊ/ us

blew | blown

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to spend a lot of money on something that is not important or effective:

Central Bank blew $900m of foreign-exchange reserves in the first two weeks of October alone.

blow the whistle (on sb/sth)

to tell someone in authority about something harmful or illegal that someone is doing:

If two of the firm's employees hadn't blown the whistle, the scandal would never have become known.

blow the lid on/off sth

to tell people the real and unpleasant facts about something that were previously not known:

The report blew the lid on the culture of secrecy surrounding the company's new range of fizzy-drink products.

blow a hole in sth

to cause serious harm or damage to something:

Defeat would blow a hole in the club's finances.

blow

noun [ C ]

/bləʊ/ us

something that causes serious problems or spoils your chances of success:

be a blow to sth The loss of 1000 jobs is another blow to the country's manufacturing sector.

come as a blow (to sb/sth) Unemployment figures will come as a blow to the Chancellor as he prepares next week's budget.

deal/deliver a blow (to sb/sth) Rising pollution levels threaten to deal a blow to the state's billion-dollar tourism industry.

a major/devastating/bitter blow We have suffered a major blow.

soften/cushion the blow

to make the bad effects of something seem to be not as bad as they could have been:

If things go wrong there are no mechanisms to soften the blow.

(Definition of blow from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

What is the pronunciation of blow?

Translations of blow

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吹氣, 吹, 吹動…

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吹气, 吹, 吹动…

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हवेचे प्रवाह हलविणे आणि बनवणे किंवा हलविणे किंवा हवेच्या प्रवाहावर काहीतरी हलविणे, तुमच्या तोंडातून आणि एखाद्या वाद्यातून जबरदस्तीने हवा काढून आवाज काढणे किंवा जेव्हा कोणी असे करते तेव्हा आवाज काढणे, गुद्दा…

（風が）吹く, （息を）ふーっと吹く, （楽器を）吹く…

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souffler, faire (en)voler, jouer de…

bufar, fer sonar, tocar…

slag, klap, tegenslag…

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