blown
1destroyed, 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.
Origin of blown
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fully expanded or opened, as a flower.
Origin of blown
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How to use blown in a sentence
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.
Inside the Movement to Abolish Colonialist Bird Names | Nathalie Alonso | February 12, 2021 | Outside OnlineSingle-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.
The Kora Xenolith Is My Secret Weapon Against the Cold | Wes Siler | February 2, 2021 | Outside OnlineLook no further than Friday’s blown lead against the Warriors for compelling evidence.
The Clippers don’t look ready to seriously challenge the Lakers | Ben Golliver | January 11, 2021 | Washington PostThe 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.
One is reported to have blown himself up, along with many victims, but detonating a suicide vest.
Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America | Sami Yousafzai | December 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen I became aware that an intern of mine had been sexually harassed by a producer while making the film, I was blown away.
A Rallying Cry Against the Oversexualization of Our Youth | Darryl Roberts | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe 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.
The Stacks: Pauline Kael's Talking Heads Obsession | Pauline Kael | November 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was blown up in July 2012 by a bomb that the Free Syrian Army claimed it planted.
Digital Doublethink: Playing Truth or Dare with Putin, Assad and ISIS | Christopher Dickey, Anna Nemtsova | November 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA groom is a chap, that a gentleman keeps to clean his 'osses, and be blown up, when things go wrong.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousIn Windsor Park, 960 trees were blown down and more than a thousand damaged; 146 shipwrecks occurred on the coasts.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellThe bag, being blown up, forms a wind reservoir and the amount of tone can be regulated by the pressure of the arm.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerThe wind-blown rain-makers lost their leaden hue and became a soft pearl-gray, all fleecy white around the edges.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairThe mouths of the pipes were made very wide and they were more freely blown.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing Miller
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