Search Result:blowing
KK Pronunciation
〔 `bloIŋ 〕
Pronunciation
〔 ˋblouiŋ 〕
Overview of noun blowing
The noun blowing has 1 sense
- blowing -- (processing that involves blowing a gas)
Overview of verb blow
The verb blow has 22 senses
- blow -- (exhale hard; "blow on the soup to cool it down")
- blow -- (be blowing or storming; "The wind blew from the West")
- blow -- (free of obstruction by blowing air through; "blow one's nose")
- float, drift, be adrift, blow -- (be in motion due to some air or water current; "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")
- blow -- (make a sound as if blown; "The whistle blew")
- blow -- (shape by blowing; "Blow a glass vase")
- botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up -- (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")
- waste, blow, squander -- (spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree")
- blow -- (spend lavishly or wastefully on; "He blew a lot of money on his new home theater")
- blow -- (sound by having air expelled through a tube; "The trumpets blew")
- blow -- (play or sound a wind instrument; "She blew the horn")
- fellate, suck, blow, go down on -- (provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation)
- blow -- (cause air to go in, on, or through; "Blow my hair dry")
- blow -- (cause to move by means of an air current; "The wind blew the leaves around in the yard")
- blow -- (spout moist air from the blowhole; "The whales blew")
- shove off, shove along, blow -- (leave; informal or rude; "shove off!"; "The children shoved along"; "Blow now!")
- blow -- (lay eggs; "certain insects are said to blow")
- blow -- (cause to be revealed and jeopardized; "The story blew their cover"; "The double agent was blown by the other side")
- boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade -- (show off)
- blow -- (allow to regain its breath; "blow a horse")
- blow out, burn out, blow -- (melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew")
- blow -- (burst suddenly; "The tire blew"; "We blew a tire")