blow

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Editorial note

I stopped lying, I stopped calling people names, or threatening to blow them up.

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Quick take

a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon; "a blow on the head"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of blow gathered in one view.

noun

a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon; "a blow on the head"

noun

an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle"

noun

an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for blow.

noun

a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon; "a blow on the head"

noun

an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle"

noun

an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating

noun

an unpleasant or disappointing surprise; "it came as a shock to learn that he was injured"

noun

a strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"

noun

street names for cocaine

noun

forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth; "he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff"

verb

exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down"

verb

be blowing or storming; "The wind blew from the West"

verb

free of obstruction by blowing air through; "blow one's nose"

verb

be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

verb

make a sound as if blown; "The whistle blew"

verb

shape by blowing; "Blow a glass vase"

verb

make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

See also: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, muff, flub, spoil, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollocks

verb

spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

verb

spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater"

verb

sound by having air expelled through a tube; "The trumpets blew"

verb

play or sound a wind instrument; "She blew the horn"

verb

provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation

verb

cause air to go in, on, or through; "Blow my hair dry"

verb

cause to move by means of an air current; "The wind blew the leaves around in the yard"

verb

spout moist air from the blowhole; "The whales blew"

verb

leave; informal or rude; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!"

verb

lay eggs; "certain insects are said to blow"

verb

cause to be revealed and jeopardized; "The story blew their cover"; "The double agent was blown by the other side"

verb

show off

verb

allow to regain its breath; "blow a horse"

verb

melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew"

verb

burst suddenly; "The tire blew"; "We blew a tire"

Example sentences

I stopped lying, I stopped calling people names, or threatening to blow them up.

It was not a heavy blow, but the novice was nonetheless surprised.

I'll bet Pfc. Manning doesn't even know how much of his exfiltration job was to get back at the Army, and how much was to "blow the whistle".

I'd run the MapReduce and it would blow up a few hundred times, then MapReduce would stop trying and kill the job.

The DoJ suit in 1997 was a serious blow to Microsoft inertia.

And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?

The source code to the parser is very assert-heavy, so if there's anything that's amiss, it tends to blow up with an assertion failure.

Additionally, it is quite plausible that Paypal could demonstrate that success is a curse to new businesses and most which blow up proceed to, well, blow up.

I left Google voluntarily but, since you asked, I did blow the whistle on unethical management practices, and I was chagrined when absolutely nothing changed.

Manning didn't leak "war crimes", he leaked whatever info he could download, without verifying that it was all actually evidence deserving of whistle-blowing.

By choosing to make an example out of his punishment, the US has struck a huge blow to its claims of moral superiority and American exceptionalism.

Not, "Oh, look at all this data I have access to, let's just FTP this shiat up to the latest foreign national to hit the news".In the DoD whistle-blowing is actually a thing, believe it or not.

So, what did you expect them to blow a whistle on?For instance, Google and Microsoft are both now reporting ranges of the NSLs they receive; in effect, a kind of whistleblowing, albeit a legal and vetted one.