blow
/bloʊ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.59 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Lear. Blow windes, & crack your cheeks; Rage, blow / You Cataracts, and Hyrricano's ſpout,"
- "Tend to th' Maſters whiſtle: Blow till thou burſt thy winde, if roome enough."
- "Hark how it rains and blows!"
- "Blow the dust off that book and open it up."
- "To-night the winds begin to rise And roar from yonder dropping day: The last red leaf is whirl’d away, The rooks are blown about the skies; […]"
- "In Koksan County, strong winds blew the roofs off homes, while torrential rains poked holes in or collapsed the walls of houses."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *blēaną Proto-West Germanic *blāan Old English blāwan Middle English blowen English blow From Middle English blowen, from Old English blāwan (“to blow, breathe, inflate, sound”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāan, from Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to swell, blow up”) (compare Latin flō (“to blow”) and Old Armenian բեղուն (bełun, “fertile”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /bloʊ/
- British English: /bləʊ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
blows (present, singular)
blowing (participle, present)
blew (past)
blown (participle, past)
blows (plural)
blower (comparative)
more blow (comparative)
blowest (superlative)
most blow (superlative)