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Blowing

noun

1.

Processing that involves blowing a gas.

Blow

verb

(past blew; past part. blown; pres. part. blowing)

1.

Exhale hard.

2.

Be blowing or storming.

3.

Free of obstruction by blowing air through.

4.

Be in motion due to some air or water current. Synonyms: be adrift, drift, float. "The boat drifted on the lake" , "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea" , "The shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"

5.

Make a sound as if blown.

6.

Shape by blowing.

7.

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin. Synonyms: ball up, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil. "The pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

8.

Spend thoughtlessly; throw away. Synonyms: squander, waste. "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"

9.

Spend lavishly or wastefully on.

10.

Sound by having air expelled through a tube.

11.

Play or sound a wind instrument.

12.

Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation. Synonyms: fellate, go down on, suck.

13.

Cause air to go in, on, or through.

14.

Cause to move by means of an air current.

15.

Spout moist air from the blowhole.

16.

Leave; informal or rude. Synonyms: shove along, shove off. "The children shoved along" , "Blow now!"

17.

Lay eggs.

18.

Cause to be revealed and jeopardized. "The double agent was blown by the other side"

19.

Show off. Synonyms: bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt.

20.

Allow to regain its breath.

21.

Melt, break, or become otherwise unusable. Synonyms: blow out, burn out. "The fuse blew"

22.

Burst suddenly. "We blew a tire"

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"Blowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... some day, but I am not sure I can. With the eggs and the "truck" Bud brought back sixteen dollars, eleven of which were mine. I bought a peck of green peas for myself from myself and ate most of them for dinner by way of blowing in some of the money. Then the chant on my heartstrings speeded me up to white-washing all the chicken paraphernalia on the place, and I dropped corn behind Rufus' plow for a whole day, even if it was to produce food for the swine. I ...

— The Golden Bird • Maria Thompson Daviess

... come up to Bristol to see us, and felt an engrossing interest in all of the family. She now led me into the house, and went as briskly to work as her rheumatic old limbs would allow, to make a good fire—piling on logs, blowing with the bellows, and talking all the while with the volubility of a kind old soul of fully sixty years of age. My father had gone to tie up the horse under the shed until Clump should return and take care of him. Clump was Juno's husband, ...

— Captain Mugford - Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors • W.H.G. Kingston

... with great surprise that in looking up the records I find that blizzard lasted three days, the temperature and wind both rising till it was 9 deg. and blowing force 9 on the morning of the second day (July 11). On the morning of the third day (July 12) it was blowing storm force (10). The temperature had thus ...

— The Worst Journey in the World, Volumes 1 and 2 - Antarctic 1910-1913 • Apsley Cherry-Garrard

... eyeing his companion with a bloodshot eye. "If it's a point of conspiracy, you needn't take the trouble to mention it. I have had enough of that, and I ain't going to have any more. We shall have YOU taking fire next or blowing ...

— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... always and her comfort and happiness a lot more to me than my own. 'My home' I call it, but it have long been borne in upon me that a home is a hollow word with nought in it but an aunt such as Mary Ball. It may be like blowing my own trumpet, and I wouldn't say it save in an understanding ear; but I do think Jane Warner would find I ...

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