Word Definitions & Examples
noun
Sense 1
"he gave his nose a loud blow"
"he blew out all the candles with a single puff"
Kinds of:
insufflation
verb
Sense 2
"The story blew their cover"
"The double agent was blown by the other side"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 5
"The wind blew the leaves around in the yard"
Kinds of:
whiff
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb
Sense 6
"Blow my hair dry"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb
Sense 7
"She blew the horn"
Type of:
sound
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 9
"The trumpets blew"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
verb
Sense 10
"He blew a lot of money on his new home theater"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
verb
Sense 11
"blow a horse"
Type of:
rest
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 12
"Blow a glass vase"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 13
"The wind blew from the West"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something to somebody
verb
Sense 14
"The tire blew"
"We blew a tire"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 17
"blow on the soup to cool it down"
Derived:
puff
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
verb
Sense 21
"He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
"You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
Kinds of:
burn
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 22
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
verb
Sense 23
"The lightbulbs blew out"
"The fuse blew"
Derived:
blowout
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
noun
Sense 24
"the tree was bent almost double by the gust"
verb
Sense 25
"shove off!"
"The children shoved along"
"Blow now!"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
verb
Sense 26
"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"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something to somebody
verb
Sense 28
"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"
"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
29
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
169
Times Searched
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