Definitions for blew

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blew blew

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IPA: /blu/

Blew is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in blew (belw).

Definitions for blew

noun

1. a blast of air or wind:
2. Informal. a violent windstorm, gale, hurricane, or the like:
3. an act of producing a blast of air, as in playing a wind instrument:
4. Metallurgy. a blast of air forced through a converter, as in the production of steel or copper. the stage of the production process during which this blast is used.
5. Civil Engineering. boil1 (def 12).
6. Slang. cocaine.
7. a yield or display of blossoms:
8. a display of anything bright or brilliant:
9. state of blossoming; a flowering:

verb

1. simple past tense of blow2 .
2. simple past tense of blow3 .

Idioms

1. blow hot and cold, to favor something at first and reject it later on; waver; vacillate:
2. blow off steam, Informal. steam (def 23). Also, let off steam.
3. blow one's cool, Slang. to lose one's composure; become angry, frantic, or flustered.
4. blow one's cover. cover (def 52).
5. blow one's lines, Theater. to forget or make an error in a speaking part or stage directions.
6. blow one's mind. mind (def 36).
7. blow one's stack. stack (def 23).
8. blow one's top. top1 (def 43).

Verb phrases

1. blow away, Slang. to kill, especially by gunfire: to defeat decisively; trounce: to overwhelm with emotion, astonishment, etc.:
2. blow down, Metallurgy. to suspend working of (a blast furnace) by smelting the existing charge with a diminishing blast.
3. blow in, Slang. to arrive at a place, especially unexpectedly: Metallurgy. to begin operations in (a blast furnace).
4. blow off, to allow steam to be released. Informal. to reduce or release tension, as by loud talking. Informal. to ignore, evade, or treat as unimportant: Informal. to not go to or participate in: Informal. to fail to meet (someone) as planned without alerting the person beforehand: Informal. to end a romantic or other relationship with:
5. blow out, to become extinguished: to lose force or cease: (of an oil or gas well) to lose oil or gas uncontrollably. Metallurgy. to blow down and clean (a blast furnace) in order to shut down.
6. blow over, to pass away; subside: to be forgotten:
7. blow up, to come into being: to explode: to cause to explode: to exaggerate; enlarge: Informal. to lose one's temper: to fill with air; inflate: Photography. to make an enlarged reproduction of. Mathematics. (of a function) to become infinite.

verb (used with object)

1. to drive by means of a current of air:
2. to spread or make widely known:
3. to drive a current of air upon.
4. to clear or empty by forcing air through:
5. to shape (glass, smoke, etc.) with a current of air:
6. to cause to sound, as by a current of air:
7. Jazz. to play (a musical instrument of any kind).
8. to cause to explode (often followed by up, to bits, etc.):
9. to burst, melt, burn out, or destroy by exploding, overloading, etc. (often followed by out):
10. to destroy; demolish (usually followed by down, over, etc.):
11. Informal. to spend money on. to squander; spend quickly: to waste; lose:
12. Informal. to mishandle, ruin, botch; make a mess of; bungle:
13. Slang. to damn:
14. to put (a horse) out of breath by fatigue.
15. Slang. to depart from:
16. Slang: Vulgar. to perform fellatio on.
17. Slang. to smoke (marijuana or other drugs).

verb (used without object)

1. (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
2. to move along, carried by or as by the wind:
3. to produce or emit a current of air, as with the mouth or a bellows:
4. (of a horn, trumpet, etc.) to give out sound.
5. to make a blowing sound; whistle:
6. (of horses) to breathe hard or quickly; pant.
7. Informal. to boast; brag:
8. Zoology. (of a whale) to spout.
9. (of a fuse, light bulb, vacuum tube, tire, etc.) to burst, melt, stop functioning, or be destroyed by exploding, overloading, etc. (often followed by out):
10. to burst from internal pressure:
11. Slang. to leave; depart.

verb (used with or without object)

1. Archaic. to blossom or cause to blossom.

Origin of blew

before 1000; Middle English blowen (v.), Old English blāwan; cognate with Latin flāre to blow

Examples for blew

He whirled about in his swivel chair, and blew a cloud of smoke from his mouth.

This gale commenced in the afternoon, and blew very heavily all that night.

One pressed her gun into the back of a man's head and blew him away.

The weather was thick, and it blew fresh, occasionally, in squalls.

The scorned party in a love-triangle, he blew his head off while serving overnight tower duty in 2007.

“About 30 seconds and traffic started going, but no one blew their horns,” Johnson told the grand jury.

At last I laid him on the fresh grass by the spring and blew water on him.

The snowflakes clung to her hair and blew against her soft cheeks.

When it happened, interestingly, it was Russert, not Hillary, who blew it.

You blew me away because you responded to my comment on the channel by name!