"blow upon" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blows upon",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blowing upon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blew upon",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blown upon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "blow<,,blew,blown> upon"
      },
      "expansion": "blow upon (third-person singular simple present blows upon, present participle blowing upon, simple past blew upon, past participle blown upon)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter xij, leaf 409r",
          "text": "And thenne syre Gawayne made many men to blowe vpon syr launcelot / And all at ones they called hym fals recreaunt knyght.\n\"And then Sir Gawaine made many men to blow upon Sir Launcelot; and all at once they called him false recreant knight.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defame, discredit; make someone the subject of a scandal."
      ],
      "id": "en-blow_upon-en-verb-2HXjCloz",
      "links": [
        [
          "defame",
          "defame"
        ],
        [
          "discredit",
          "discredit"
        ],
        [
          "scandal",
          "scandal"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1811, Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation",
          "text": "How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities",
          "text": "If it wos so, which I still don't say it is (for I will not prewaricate to you, sir), let that there boy keep his father's place, and take care of his mother; don't blow upon that boy's father — do not do it, sir — and let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To inform against."
      ],
      "id": "en-blow_upon-en-verb-odWGg50~",
      "links": [
        [
          "inform",
          "inform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, dated) To inform against."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "19 10 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 15 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (upon)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To take the bloom or freshness off something."
      ],
      "id": "en-blow_upon-en-verb-IyC4ZH9Y"
    }
  ],
  "word": "blow upon"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (upon)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blows upon",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blowing upon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blew upon",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blown upon",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "blow<,,blew,blown> upon"
      },
      "expansion": "blow upon (third-person singular simple present blows upon, present participle blowing upon, simple past blew upon, past participle blown upon)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XX, Chapter xij, leaf 409r",
          "text": "And thenne syre Gawayne made many men to blowe vpon syr launcelot / And all at ones they called hym fals recreaunt knyght.\n\"And then Sir Gawaine made many men to blow upon Sir Launcelot; and all at once they called him false recreant knight.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defame, discredit; make someone the subject of a scandal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defame",
          "defame"
        ],
        [
          "discredit",
          "discredit"
        ],
        [
          "scandal",
          "scandal"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1811, Charles Lamb, On the Tragedies of Shakespeare Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation",
          "text": "How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities",
          "text": "If it wos so, which I still don't say it is (for I will not prewaricate to you, sir), let that there boy keep his father's place, and take care of his mother; don't blow upon that boy's father — do not do it, sir — and let that father go into the line of the reg'lar diggin', and make amends for what he would have undug […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To inform against."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inform",
          "inform"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, dated) To inform against."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To take the bloom or freshness off something."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blow upon"
}