blow away
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.55 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
Example Sentences
- "He blew away the dust which had collected on the book."
- "Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property."
- "I didn't have to rake. The leaves just blew away."
- "She was like / Jazz on a summer's day / Music, high and sweet / Then she just blew away"
- "The kid just blew the clerk away."
- "In the end, the question proved to be academic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike, the dense web of mutual memory which had held the Task Force together since its formation tore loose. More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years."
Usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb
- American usage
- Informal