blow
blow is a 4-letter English word with 57 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To flower; to blossom; to bloom. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
- transitive verb. To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
- noun. A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
- noun. A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
- noun. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
- noun. The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
- intransitive verb. To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
- intransitive verb. To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
- intransitive verb. To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
- intransitive verb. To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
- intransitive verb. To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
- intransitive verb. To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
- intransitive verb. To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
- transitive verb. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
- transitive verb. To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
- transitive verb. To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
- transitive verb. To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
- transitive verb. To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
- transitive verb. To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
- transitive verb. To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
- transitive verb. To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
- transitive verb. To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
- transitive verb. To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
- noun. A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
- noun. The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
- noun. The spouting of a whale.
- noun. A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
- noun. An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
- noun. forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
"he gave his nose a loud blow"
"he blew out all the candles with a single puff"
- noun. a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon
"a blow on the head"
- noun. street names for cocaine
- noun. an unpleasant or disappointing surprise
"it came as a shock to learn that he was injured"
- noun. an impact (as from a collision)
"the bump threw him off the bicycle"
- noun. an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
- noun. a strong current of air
"the tree was bent almost double by the gust"
- verb. exhale hard
"blow on the soup to cool it down"
- verb. free of obstruction by blowing air through
"blow one's nose"
- verb. burst suddenly
"The tire blew"
"We blew a tire"
- verb. melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
"The lightbulbs blew out"
"The fuse blew"
- verb. shape by blowing
"Blow a glass vase"
- verb. allow to regain its breath
"blow a horse"
- verb. show off
- verb. cause to be revealed and jeopardized
"The story blew their cover"
"The double agent was blown by the other side"
- verb. lay eggs
"certain insects are said to blow"
- verb. leave; informal or rude
"shove off!"
"The children shoved along"
- verb. be in motion due to some air or water current
"The leaves were blowing in the wind"
"the boat drifted on the lake"
- verb. spout moist air from the blowhole
"The whales blew"
- verb. cause to move by means of an air current
"The wind blew the leaves around in the yard"
- verb. cause air to go in, on, or through
"Blow my hair dry"
- verb. provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
- verb. play or sound a wind instrument
"She blew the horn"
- verb. make a sound as if blown
"The whistle blew"
- verb. sound by having air expelled through a tube
"The trumpets blew"
- verb. spend lavishly or wastefully on
"He blew a lot of money on his new home theater"
- verb. spend thoughtlessly; throw away
"He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"
"You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
- verb. make a mess of, destroy or ruin
"I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"
"the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"
- verb. be blowing or storming
"The wind blew from the West"
Synonyms
puff, coke, snow, shock, bump, reversal, reverse, setback, blast, gust, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, swash, tout, vaunt, drift, float, fellate, suck, squander, waste
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in blow:
Common word forms
blows, blowed, blowen, blower, blowing
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