"blow away" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-blow away.ogg [Australia] Forms: blows away [present, singular, third-person], blowing away [participle, present], blew away [past], blown away [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|<,,blew,blown>}} blow away (third-person singular simple present blows away, present participle blowing away, simple past blew away, past participle blown away)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away. Derived forms: dry up and blow away
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  2. (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-CJY7lfPS
  3. (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-in-yHuql Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 5 17 5 4 22 8 5 4 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 4 19 4 3 24 6 4 3 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 8 13 6 6 18 8 6 8 21 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 7 7 13 7 7 17 8 7 7 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 6 9 12 6 5 17 11 6 7 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 6 5 16 6 5 21 6 5 5 25
  4. (intransitive, figurative) To leave, depart. Tags: figuratively, intransitive
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-YAYX13Da
  5. (transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm. Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-vUnp0l2o
  6. (transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force. Tags: broadly, idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-Z7ydXxI0 Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Violence Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 5 17 5 4 22 8 5 4 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 4 19 4 3 24 6 4 3 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 8 13 6 6 18 8 6 8 21 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 7 7 13 7 7 17 8 7 7 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 6 9 12 6 5 17 11 6 7 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 6 5 16 6 5 21 6 5 5 25 Disambiguation of Violence: 8 9 9 10 9 16 10 10 9 10
  7. (transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly. Tags: US, idiomatic, transitive Translations (to impress greatly): 印象深刻 (Chinese Mandarin), saada haltioihinsa (Finnish), souffler (French), spiazzare (Italian), sorprendere (Italian), colpire (Italian), сража́ть (sražátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), срази́ть (srazítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), поража́ть (poražátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), порази́ть (porazítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), сража́ть напова́л (sražátʹ napovál) [imperfective] (Russian), срази́ть напова́л (srazítʹ napovál) [perfective] (Russian), navdušiti (Slovene), dejar atónito (Spanish), dejar pasmado (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-IlL0HzQu Categories (other): American English, Terms with Slovene translations Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 6 9 12 6 5 17 11 6 7 20 Disambiguation of 'to impress greatly': 1 1 1 3 0 3 87 1 0 3
  8. (transitive) To overwhelm. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-v0-odYeH
  9. (transitive) To cause to go away; to get rid of. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-ouno2YDJ
  10. (transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.). Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-blow_away-en-verb-0QthxAQg Categories (other): Computing, English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "away", Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 4 16 9 3 18 11 3 4 24 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "away": 10 8 12 7 5 14 10 6 9 19 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 7 13 8 7 15 8 8 7 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 5 17 5 4 22 8 5 4 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 4 19 4 3 24 6 4 3 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 8 13 6 6 18 8 6 8 21 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 7 7 13 7 7 17 8 7 7 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 6 6 14 7 5 19 7 7 5 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 6 6 14 7 5 19 7 7 5 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 5 7 12 9 5 14 13 5 6 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 6 6 14 7 5 19 7 7 5 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovene translations: 6 9 12 6 5 17 11 6 7 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 6 5 16 6 5 21 6 5 5 25 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (to cause to go away by blowing): puhaltaa (Finnish), puhaltaa pois (Finnish), souffler (French), spazzare via (Italian), 吹き飛ぶ (fukitobu) (Japanese), odpihniti (Slovene), razpihati (Slovene) Translations (to depart on currents of air): lentää pois (Finnish), lentää tiehensä (Finnish), s'envoler (French)
Disambiguation of 'to cause to go away by blowing': 2 49 0 0 0 0 1 1 47 0 Disambiguation of 'to depart on currents of air': 0 1 48 40 0 2 2 1 1 4

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 162:",
          "text": "In the end, the question proved to be academic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike, the dense web of mutual memory which had held the Task Force together since its formation tore loose. More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years.",
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        "(transitive, idiomatic, by extension) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force."
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        "(transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.)."
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      "code": "fi",
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      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
      "word": "puhaltaa"
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      "sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
      "word": "puhaltaa pois"
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      "sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
      "word": "souffler"
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      "sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
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      "roman": "fukitobu",
      "sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
      "word": "吹き飛ぶ"
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      "sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
      "word": "odpihniti"
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      "sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
      "word": "razpihati"
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      "sense": "to depart on currents of air",
      "word": "lentää pois"
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      "word": "lentää tiehensä"
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      "sense": "to depart on currents of air",
      "word": "s'envoler"
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      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "sense": "to impress greatly",
      "word": "印象深刻"
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      "sense": "to impress greatly",
      "word": "saada haltioihinsa"
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      "sense": "to impress greatly",
      "word": "souffler"
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      "code": "it",
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      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "to impress greatly",
      "word": "spiazzare"
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      "sense": "to impress greatly",
      "word": "sorprendere"
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      "sense": "to impress greatly",
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      "roman": "sražátʹ",
      "sense": "to impress greatly",
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      "word": "сража́ть"
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      "roman": "porazítʹ",
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      "word": "порази́ть"
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      "roman": "sražátʹ napovál",
      "sense": "to impress greatly",
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      "word": "сража́ть напова́л"
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      "sense": "to impress greatly",
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      "sense": "to impress greatly",
      "word": "navdušiti"
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      "code": "es",
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      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "to impress greatly",
      "word": "dejar atónito"
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "to impress greatly",
      "word": "dejar pasmado"
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}

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