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blown

1

[ blohn ]

adjective

  1. a blown stomach.

  2. destroyed, melted, inoperative, misshapen, ruined, or spoiled:

    to replace a blown fuse;

    to dispose of blown canned goods.

  3. being out of breath.
  4. formed by blowing:

    blown glass.

  5. Automotive Slang.
    1. (of an engine) supercharged.
    2. (of a cylinder) destroyed or severely damaged under mechanical stress.


blown

2

[ blohn ]

adjective

, Horticulture.
  1. fully expanded or opened, as a flower.

blown

/ bləʊn /

verb

  1. See blow
    the past participle of blow 1 blow 3


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blown1

First recorded in 1550–60; past participle of blow 2

Origin of blown2

First recorded before 1000; past participle of blow 3

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Example Sentences

It has since grown into a full-blown campaign, which Rutter and Foley are calling Bird Names for Birds, with a petition that garnered more than 2,500 signatures and an endorsement from the nonprofit American Bird Conservancy.

Single-digit temperatures combined with high winds and light precipitation to create bone-chillingly damp weather that instantly stung any exposed skin with blown ice particles.

Look no further than Friday’s blown lead against the Warriors for compelling evidence.

The county – after some foot-dragging and blown deadlines – provided the records.

Experts expect full-blown quantum computers to be ready in a decade, or longer.

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One is reported to have blown himself up, along with many victims, but detonating a suicide vest.

When I became aware that an intern of mine had been sexually harassed by a producer while making the film, I was blown away.

The absent turkey had been blown clean away in the hurricane force winds, I concluded.

I was already a full-blown movie freak by the time I was in 8th grade.

He was blown up in July 2012 by a bomb that the Free Syrian Army claimed it planted.

A groom is a chap, that a gentleman keeps to clean his 'osses, and be blown up, when things go wrong.

In Windsor Park, 960 trees were blown down and more than a thousand damaged; 146 shipwrecks occurred on the coasts.

The bag, being blown up, forms a wind reservoir and the amount of tone can be regulated by the pressure of the arm.

The wind-blown rain-makers lost their leaden hue and became a soft pearl-gray, all fleecy white around the edges.

The mouths of the pipes were made very wide and they were more freely blown.

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