See blow away on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1982, Steve Winwood, Will Jennings, “Valerie”:",
"text": "She was like / Jazz on a summer's day / Music, high and sweet / Then she just blew away",
"type": "quotation"
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"glosses": [
"To leave, depart."
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"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, figurative) To leave, depart."
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"text": "The kid just blew the clerk away.",
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"glosses": [
"To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm."
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"firearm"
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm."
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"transitive"
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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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"glosses": [
"To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force."
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"text": "The critics were blown away by their latest album.",
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"glosses": [
"To flabbergast; to impress greatly."
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"(transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly."
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"ref": "2011 February 5, Paul Fletcher, “Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal”, in BBC:",
"text": "Newcastle were completely blown away during the opening half of the match but worked up a head of steam after the interval that saw them score four goals in 19 minutes against a bruised and beleaguered Arsenal.",
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"To overwhelm."
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"(transitive) To overwhelm."
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"ref": "2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:",
"text": "And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering.",
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"glosses": [
"To cause to go away; to get rid of."
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"get rid of"
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"(transitive) To cause to go away; to get rid of."
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"glosses": [
"To delete (data, files, etc.)."
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"(transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.)."
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
"word": "puhaltaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
"word": "puhaltaa pois"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
"word": "souffler"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
"word": "spazzare via"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "fukitobu",
"sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
"word": "吹き飛ぶ"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"lang_code": "sl",
"sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
"word": "odpihniti"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"lang_code": "sl",
"sense": "to cause to go away by blowing",
"word": "razpihati"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to depart on currents of air",
"word": "lentää pois"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to depart on currents of air",
"word": "lentää tiehensä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to depart on currents of air",
"word": "s'envoler"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "印象深刻"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "saada haltioihinsa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "souffler"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "spiazzare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "sorprendere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "colpire"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "sražátʹ",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сража́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "srazítʹ",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "срази́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "poražátʹ",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "поража́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "porazítʹ",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "порази́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "sražátʹ napovál",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сража́ть напова́л"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "srazítʹ napovál",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "срази́ть напова́л"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"lang_code": "sl",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "navdušiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "dejar atónito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to impress greatly",
"word": "dejar pasmado"
}
],
"word": "blow away"
}
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