"upblow" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow.",
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      "form": "upblowing",
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      "form": "upblew",
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          "text": "1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,”\n[…] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]"
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          "text": "With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown,\nAnd feels a Power which he believes his own;",
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        "To inflate."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To inflate."
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          "_dis1": "74 17 9",
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          "sense": "inflate",
          "word": "opblazen"
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          "_dis1": "74 17 9",
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          "sense": "inflate",
          "word": "aufblasen"
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          "text": "1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen,\nIngyniers in the trench\nearth, earth uprearing,\nGun-powder in the mynes,\nPagans upblowing."
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        "To explode, blow up."
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        "(transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up."
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          "text": "1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28,\nThe helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on;\nYet never a breeze up-blew;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1814, Dante Alighieri, “The Vision of Purgatory”, in Henry Francis Cary, transl., The Divine Comedy, Canto 25",
          "text": "Here the rocky precipice\nHurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim\nA blast upblown, with forcible rebuff\nDriveth them back,",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 3",
          "text": "The woods break down, the sand upblows\nIn blinding volleys warm;",
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          "text": "1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105,\nA blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust."
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        "To blow in an upward direction."
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        "(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction."
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          "text": "1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28,\nThe helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on;\nYet never a breeze up-blew;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1814, Dante Alighieri, “The Vision of Purgatory”, in Henry Francis Cary, transl., The Divine Comedy, Canto 25",
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        {
          "ref": "1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 3",
          "text": "The woods break down, the sand upblows\nIn blinding volleys warm;",
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          "text": "1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105,\nA blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust."
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        "To blow in an upward direction."
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        "(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction."
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      "sense": "inflate",
      "word": "opblazen"
    },
    {
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      "sense": "inflate",
      "word": "aufblasen"
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  "word": "upblow"
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