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📖 Определения и значения для слова blow

📒 to send out air from the mouth

  • + adv./prep. You're not blowing hard enough!
  • The policeman asked me to blow into the breathalyser.
  • blow something + adv./prep. He drew on his cigarette and blew out a stream of smoke.

📒 when the wind or a current of air blows, it is moving; when it blows, the wind is blowing

  • The birds were singing and a warm wind was blowing.
  • + adv./prep. A cold wind blew from the east.
  • It was blowing hard.

📒 to be moved by the wind, somebody’s breath, etc.; to move something in this way

  • + adv./prep. My hat blew off.
  • + adj. The door blew open.
  • blow somebody/something + adv./prep. I was almost blown over by the wind.

📒 if you blow a whistle, musical instrument, etc. or if a whistle, etc. blows, you produce a sound by blowing into the whistle, etc.

  • the sound of trumpets blowing
  • blow something The referee blew his whistle.

📒 to clear your nose by blowing strongly through it into a tissue or handkerchief

  • She grabbed a tissue and loudly blew her nose.

📒 to kiss your hand and then pretend to blow the kiss towards somebody

📒 to make or shape something by blowing

  • to blow smoke rings
  • to blow bubbles (= for example, by blowing onto a thin layer of water mixed with soap)
  • to blow glass (= to send a current of air into melted glass to shape it)

📒 if a fuse blows or you blow a fuse, the electricity stops flowing suddenly because the fuse (= a thin wire) has melted because the current was too strong

📒 to break open or apart, especially because of pressure from inside; to make a tyre break in this way

  • The car spun out of control when a tyre blew.
  • The truck blew a tyre and lurched off the road.

📒 to break something open with explosives

  • The safe had been blown by the thieves.

📒 to make known something that was secret

  • One mistake could blow your cover (= make your real name, job, intentions, etc. known).
  • We’re going to blow his operation wide open.

📒 to spend or waste a lot of money on something

  • He inherited over a million dollars and blew it all on drink and gambling.

📒 to waste an opportunity

  • She blew her chances by arriving late for the interview.
  • You had your chance and you blew it.

📒 used to show that you are annoyed, surprised or do not care about something

  • Blow it! We've missed the bus.
  • Well, blow me down! I never thought I'd see you again.
  • I'm blowed if I'm going to (= I certainly will not) let him treat you like that.

📒 to leave a place suddenly

  • Let's blow this joint.

📒 to kill yourself/somebody by shooting yourself/them in the head

  • He put a gun to his head and threatened to blow his brains out.
  • While cleaning his shotgun he had accidentally blown his own brains out.

📒 to vomit

📒 to help somebody have a fresh, lively state of mind again

  • A brisk walk should blow the cobwebs away.

📒 to get very angry

📒 to tell something secret, especially by mistake

📒 to change your opinion about something often

📒 to produce a very strong feeling of pleasure or shock

  • Wait till you hear this. It'll blow your mind.
  • a collection of photographs that will blow your mind

📒 to get rid of your energy, anger or strong emotions by doing something active or noisy

  • I went for a long walk to let off steam.
  • I like blowing off steam and I like saying things that shock people.

📒 to destroy somebody/something completely

📒 to show that somebody/something is not good by being very much better than it/them

  • I like my old phone, but this new model blows it out of the water.

📒 to praise your own abilities and achievements

📒 to try to trick somebody or lie to somebody, particularly by saying something is better than it really is

📒 to surprise or impress somebody very much

📒 used by somebody who does not want to do something because it involves too much effort

  • Sod that for a lark! I'm not doing any more tonight.

📒 to use bombs or other weapons to destroy somebody/something completely

  • The plane was blown to pieces when the bomb exploded.

📒 to completely destroy somebody/something with an explosion

  • The truck was blown to kingdom come.

📒 to get very angry

📒 if a plan, etc. blows up in your face, it goes badly wrong in a way that causes you damage or makes you feel embarrassed

📒 to tell somebody in authority about something wrong or illegal that somebody is doing

📒 no problem is so bad that it does not bring some advantage to somebody

📒 to tell people unpleasant facts about something

  • Her article lifts the lid on bullying in the workplace.

📒 to breathe quickly and loudly through your mouth after physical effort

  • Eventually, puffing and blowing, he arrived at the gate.

📒 to get an idea of what is likely to happen before deciding what to do

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