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blow

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bl??/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /blo?/
  • Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English blowen, from Old English bl?wan (to blow, breathe, inflate, sound), from Proto-West Germanic *bl?an, from Proto-Germanic *bl?an? (to blow) (compare German blähen), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (to swell, blow up) (compare Latin fl? (to blow) and Old Armenian ?????? (be?un, fertile)).

Verb

blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)

  1. (intransitive) To produce an air current.
    • 1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
      Hark how it rains and blows!
  2. (transitive) To propel by an air current.
  3. (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
  4. (transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
  5. To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
  6. To clear of contents by forcing air through.
  7. (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.
  8. (intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.
  9. (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
  10. (intransitive) To explode.
  11. (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
  12. (transitive) To cause sudden destruction of.
  13. (intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.
  14. (intransitive) (used to express displeasure or frustration) Damn.
  15. (intransitive, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
    Synonym: suck
  16. (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
  17. (transitive, vulgar) To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:give head
  18. (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
  19. To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.
  20. (obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
    • Through the court his courtesy was blown.
  21. (obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
  22. (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
  23. (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
  24. (dated) To talk loudly; boast; storm.
    • a. 1940, Mildred Haun, "Shin-Bone Rocks" in The Hawk's Done Gone p. 218:
      He didn't just set around and try to out sweettalk somebody; he got out and out-fit somebody. He wouldn't be blowing when he told his boys how he fit for the woman he got.
    • 1969, Charles Ambrose McCarthy, The Great Molly Maguire Hoax (page 113)
      At the breaking edge with him and completely fed up with his everlasting bragging and blowing about his personal exploits, and desirous of putting him somewhere, anywhere, so they wouldn't be continuously annoyed by him, []
    • 1976, David Toulmin, Blown Seed (page 148)
      Audie never liked him because he was further in with old Craig than he was, bragging and blowing about his work and the things he could do, while Audie sat quiet as a mouse listening to his blab.
  25. (slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
  26. (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

blow (plural blows)

  1. A strong wind.
  2. (informal) A chance to catch one’s breath.
  3. (uncountable, US, slang) Cocaine.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:cocaine
  4. (uncountable, Britain, slang) Cannabis.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
  5. (uncountable, US Chicago Regional, slang) Heroin.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin
  6. (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oral sex
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English blo, bloo, from Old English bl?w (blue), from Proto-Germanic *bl?waz (blue, dark blue, grey, black), from Proto-Indo-European *b?l?w- (yellow, blond, grey). Cognate with Latin flavus (yellow). Doublet of blue.

Adjective

blow (comparative blower or more blow, superlative blowest or most blow)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal, Northern England) Blue.

Etymology 3

From Middle English blowe, blaw, northern variant of bl?we, from Proto-Germanic *blewwan? (to beat) (compare Old Norse blegði (wedge), German bläuen, Middle Dutch blouwen). Related to block.

Noun

blow (plural blows)

  1. The act of striking or hitting.
    Synonyms: bace, strike, hit, punch
  2. A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
    • 1838-1842', Thomas Arnold, History of Rome
      A vigorous blow might win [Hanno's camp].
  3. A damaging occurrence.
    Synonyms: disaster, calamity
  4. (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English blowen, from Old English bl?wan, from Proto-Germanic *bl?an? (compare Dutch bloeien, German blühen), from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (compare Latin flor?re (to bloom)).

Verb

blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)

  1. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1
      You seem to me as Dian in her orb,
      As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 5
      How blows the citron grove.
Related terms
  • full-blown
Translations

Noun

blow (plural blows)

  1. A mass or display of flowers; a yield.
  2. A display of anything brilliant or bright.
  3. A bloom, state of flowering.
Related terms
  • ablow
  • elder-blow
Translations

Anagrams

  • bowl

Middle English

Verb

blow

  1. Alternative form of blowen (to blow)

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crash

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?æ?/
  • Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (to break into pieces), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (to break) +? -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (to crack, break open) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).

Noun

crash (plural crashes)

  1. A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
  2. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
  3. (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
    Synonym: abend
  4. (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
  5. (informal) A comedown from a drug.
  6. (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
    • p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, ?ISBN, page 103
      One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”
      [] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.
    • 1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19
      The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.
    • 1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126
      Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.
    • 2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania, page 23
      The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.
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Adjective

crash (not comparable)

  1. Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.
    crash course
    crash diet
Translations

Verb

crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)

  1. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
  2. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.
  3. (transitive, slang) Short for gatecrash.
  4. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
  5. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
  6. (slang) To give, as a favor.
  7. (slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
  8. (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.
    Synonym: bomb
  9. (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.
  10. (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
  11. (transitive) To hit or strike with force
  12. (medicine, of a patient's condition) To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
  13. To make a sudden loud noise.
Translations

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin; perhaps compare Russian ?????????? (krašenína, coarse linen).

Noun

crash (uncountable)

  1. (fibre) A type of rough linen.
    • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
      Unlocking the door of her bath-room she went inside, and soon emerged, bringing a rug, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and two huge hair pillows covered with crash, which she placed against the front of the building.
Translations

Anagrams

  • Rasch, chars

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • (Netherlands) IPA(key): /kr??/
  • Hyphenation: crash
  • Homophone: crèche

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English crash.

Noun

crash m (plural crashes, diminutive crashje n)

  1. crash, collision, esp. when involving aircraft
  2. economic crash, especially in relation to stock exchanges
    Synonym: krach
  3. computer crash
Derived terms
  • beurscrash
  • computercrash

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

crash

  1. first-person singular present indicative of crashen
  2. imperative of crashen

French

Etymology

From English crash

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?a?/

Noun

crash m (plural crashs)

  1. (of an aircraft) crash landing
  2. (economics) crash
  3. (computing) crash

Derived terms

  • crasher

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?a?/, [?k?a?]

Noun

crash m (plural crashes)

  1. (economics) crash
  2. (computing) crash

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