Blown Meaning
/bləʊn/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjDistended, swollen, or inflated.
adjPanting and out of breath.
Sentence Examples
We got our roof blown off in the gale.
The roof was blown off by the explosion.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The glass artist had carefully ____ the molten material into a beautiful vase shape.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old wooden fence was ____ down by the powerful storm last night.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan. Morphologically blow + -n.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"[T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight."
— 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 33:
"Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged."
— 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The glass artist had carefully ____ the molten material into a beautiful vase shape.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The old wooden fence was ____ down by the powerful storm last night.