to blow
- verb
- /bloส/
- The countryside is so pretty with the wind blowing in your hair.
- wind blows
- blow away
- breeze blows
Take a deep breath, then blow your lips to make them flap.
- Take a deep breath, then blow your lips to make them flap.
- The wind, whichever way it blows, can be your friend.
- And then my friend, he blew the candles out before I could.
- A blasted air hits me and blew me over the wind.
- So I'm going to give it a heat blow a heat gun.
Examples
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He sneezed and he blew his nose on his sleeve.
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The coach told the players to blow the whistle when the game starts.
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In the desert, the wind can blow hard for several days.
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Come on, let's blow this place and talk.
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My hand is upside down and I ask you to blow at it.
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Step one: We reverse the vacuum and blow the air back on to the planet.
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Blow the candles out and then we'll cut the cake.
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The rain had stopped, and the wind blew a stench from the river.
Fiction book (1990) -
The teacher then asked Amir to blow out the candles, which he did after strenuous effort.
Academic text (1991) -
When the soup is too hot, you should blow on it to cool it down.
Synonyms
To take air into the lungs and let it out
To breathe out air or smoke from your lungs
To breathe out loudly and hard, often from effort or anger
To breathe out quickly and loudly
To push air out of your lungs
To move air by waving something like a piece of paper
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To leave a place quickly because you do not want to be there
- Offensive
Informal and rude way to use up all your energy or resources at once
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
To not attend or take part in something you should, often to do something else instead
- Informal
Do something active, like go for a run, to feel less angry or stressed
To touch your lips with one hand then move that hand toward someone to show love
To make a small round pocket of air in soapy water by puffing with your mouth
- Informal
A plan or action that fails suddenly and causes big problems for the person who planned it
- Informal
Make someone have bad back pain from lifting something heavy
Compounds
A large fly with a shiny blue-green body that lays eggs on dead animals and in wounds
- Specialized
A machine that makes hollow plastic items like bottles by heating plastic and using air to shape it
- Specialized
A machine that makes hollow plastic items like bottles by using air to push heated plastic into a mold
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Blow comes from an old English word blฤwan that meant 'to move air'. So to blow is to push air out, like wind or when you clear your nose.