blow

CEFRA2

/bləʊ/

verb

Türkçe translations

Translating…

In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To move air or hit with force.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    To be propelled by an air current.

Examples

  • Make a wish and blow out the candles.

  • She received a severe blow on the head.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /blaː/
  • /bloʊ/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.

  2. To produce an air current.

  3. To create or shape by blowing.

More examples

In context

  • Teachers should occasionally let their students blow off some steam.

  • Blow the dust off that book and open it up.

  • The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.

Synonyms

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The strong wind began to violently blank the windows during the hurricane.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

Nearby

Origin

verb

From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).