Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blow a hole through

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English

Syllables: blow a -hole through
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To destroy the integrity or cohesion of.

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, hole, through.

Example Sentences

"That one small confession to a man she barely knew blew a hole through her emotional dam and everything she'd held back for the last week flooded out."
"'By taking down the towers, Sept 11 blew a hole through the errors of the past."
"Unless the letters were fake, they blew a hole through Martha's story."
"By rolling into the city that Vladimir Putin still claimed as his own, the leader of Ukraine would blow a hole through the stories of conquest and imperial glory that Russian propagandists had been using for months to justify the war."

Inflected Forms

blows a hole through (present, singular) blowing a hole through (participle, present) blew a hole through (past) blown a hole through (participle, past)

Questions

What does blow a hole through mean?: To destroy the integrity or cohesion of.

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