Definitions for blown

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blown blown

Spelling: [blohn]

IPA: /bloʊn/

Blown is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in blown (blnow).

Definitions for blown

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:

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).

adjective

1. inflated; swollen; expanded:
2. destroyed, melted, inoperative, misshapen, ruined, or spoiled:
3. being out of breath.
4. flyblown.
5. formed by blowing:
6. Automotive Slang. (of an engine) supercharged. (of a cylinder) destroyed or severely damaged under mechanical stress.
7. fully expanded or opened, as a flower.

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 blown

past participle of blow²

Examples for blown

One strip, Foolish Grandpa and Sour Henry, shows Grandpa being hit on the head by a sandbag and blown up by dynamite.

The absent turkey had been blown clean away in the hurricane force winds, I concluded.

When I became aware that an intern of mine had been sexually harassed by a producer while making the film, I was blown away.

One is reported to have blown himself up, along with many victims, but detonating a suicide vest.

The explosion had blown in the wall and cut off the only path by which they could descend.

The frolic with the child seemed to have blown away a fog from between them.

"Maybe it was blown here by the storm," suggested Tom Chist.

The sides of this hill he covered with a layer of bricks that the sand might not be blown away.

He was blown up in July 2012 by a bomb that the Free Syrian Army claimed it planted.

The latter had been blown down; we, however, re-erected it firmly again.