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blown
1[ blohn ]
adjective
a blown stomach.
- destroyed, melted, inoperative, misshapen, ruined, or spoiled:
to replace a blown fuse;
to dispose of blown canned goods.
- being out of breath.
- formed by blowing:
blown glass.
- Automotive Slang.
- (of an engine) supercharged.
- (of a cylinder) destroyed or severely damaged under mechanical stress.
blown
2[ blohn ]
adjective
- fully expanded or opened, as a flower.
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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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