Word start from blow

All Words: blow, blowing, blown, blower, blowout, blowfish, blowup, blowtube, blowtorch, blowfly, blowhole, blowzy, blowsy, blowziness, blowpipe, blowy, blowhard, blowlamp, blowback, blowgun, blowzed, blowball, and blowholes

Word	Length	Consonants	Vowels	Syllables	Origin	Favourite
Blow	4	3	1	1	Middle English
Blowing	7	5	2	2
Blown	5	4	1	1	Middle English
Blower	6	4	2	2
Blowout	7	4	3	2
Blowfish	8	6	2	2
Blowup	6	4	2	2
Blowtube	8	5	3	2
Blowtorch	9	7	2	2
Blowfly	7	6	1	2
Blowhole	8	5	3	2
Blowzy	6	5	1	2
Blowsy	6	5	1	2
Blowziness	10	7	3	3
Blowpipe	8	5	3	2
Blowy	5	4	1	2
Blowhard	8	6	2	2
Blowlamp	8	6	2	2
Blowback	8	6	2	2
Blowgun	7	5	2	2
Blowzed	7	5	2	2
Blowball	8	6	2	2
Blowholes	9	6	3	3

Prefix: blow-. List of words that begin like blow / start with blow.

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I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a blow to sb/sth’s credibilty (=something that damages credibility)

▪ The case was a severe blow to the administration’s credibility.

a breeze blows

▪ The strong breeze blew sand in our faces.

a devastating blow (=a devastating action or event )

▪ When a huge car bomb exploded, it was a devastating blow to the peace plan.

a gale blows

▪ It was a grey winter’s day with an Atlantic gale blowing.

a severe blow (=an event that has a very bad effect)

▪ The closure of the mine was a severe blow to the country’s economy.

a storm blows itself out (=ends)

▪ The storm finally blew itself out.

a storm blows over (=ends)

▪ The President is just hoping that the storm will blow over quickly.

a storm blows up (=starts)

▪ That night, a storm blew up.

a storm blows up (=starts)

▪ In 1895 a diplomatic storm blew up between Britain and America over Venezuela.

be blowing/swaying/flapping etc in the wind

▪ The trees were all swaying in the wind.

be blown to bits (=by a bomb)

▪ A bus shelter nearby was blown to bits.

blew…to kingdom come

▪ He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come.

blew…whistle

▪ The lifeguard blew his whistle.

blow a chanceinformal (= have a special opportunity and fail to use it)

▪ He thought he’d blown his chance of happiness.

blow a fuse (=make it melt by putting too much electricity through it)

blow a leadinformal (= to lose the lead)

▪ They managed to blow a 22-point lead.

blow a raspberry (also give a raspberry American English)

▪ She blew a raspberry at him as he drove off.

blow job

blow out a candle

▪ Can you blow out all the candles on your birthday cake?

blow sb a kiss (=to kiss your hand and then blow across it towards someone)

▪ Joe blew her a kiss and waved goodbye.

blow up

▪ Can you help me blow up these balloons?

blow your nose (=clear your nose by blowing strongly into a piece of soft paper or cloth)

▪ She blew her nose on a large white handkerchief.

blowing bubbles

▪ She was blowing bubbles in her milk with a straw.

body blow

▪ Hopes of economic recovery were dealt a body blow by this latest announcement.

cruel blow

▪ His death was a cruel blow.

crushing blow (=made him lose hope and confidence)

▪ Failing his final exams was a crushing blow .

cushion the blow/impact (of sth)

▪ generous leaving allowances to help cushion the blow of redundancy

death blow

▪ His decision to leave the show has delivered a death blow to the series.

deflected…blow

▪ He deflected the blow with his forearm.

delivered a death blow to

▪ His decision to leave the show has delivered a death blow to the series.

fatal blow

▪ His presidential hopes suffered a fatal blow in New Hampshire.

it’s blowing a galeBritish English (= the wind is blowing very strongly)

▪ It was blowing a gale last night.

soften the blow/impact

▪ The impact of the tax was softened by large tax-free allowances.

sound/toot/honk/blow your horn (=make a noise with your horn)

strike a blow at/against/to sth

▪ The scandal seemed to have struck a mortal blow to the government’s chances of re-election.

struck…a blow

▪ Paul struck him a blow to the head.

suffer a blow (=experience a situation or event that causes difficulty or sadness)

▪ The government suffered another blow when a report claimed that standards in education were falling.

the wind blows

▪ A cold wind was blowing.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

apart

▪ As three more shots rang out, the push-chair blew apart.

▪ Others had been hit by pieces of trees or bomb fragments and blown apart.

▪ To stop the people going back, their homes are shelled, shot up and blown apart.

▪ Living away from each other, the extended family has been blown apart.

▪ Everyone on the bridge of the Raubvogel ducked as a pane of glass was blown apart.

▪ The old world has been blown apart.

▪ It was in the film to be blown apart.

▪ The ship had clearly been blown apart.

away

▪ The glass shattered like an eggshell, and blew away.

▪ Honest, how do they keep themselves from blowing away?

▪ Hundreds of millions of dollars blown away.

▪ But my doubts have been blown away.

▪ Amongst other things, it threatened to blow away the career of Michael Banks.

▪ Remaining stacks were blown away with tank fire.

▪ Beatlemania had arrived, and everywhere a gale of self-induced collective hysteria blew away the leaves of fuddy-duddy Britain.

▪ And again the Brit blew away the Yank.

down

▪ We planted it 12 years ago, to replace one blown down in the previous storms.

▪ Over the valley, a full moon was rising, and a chill wind was blowing down from the distant mountains.

▪ So ferocious was the wind that the trees blew down and blocked the roads and railways.

▪ Trees were uprooted, tents blown down, the bridges over the Chickahominy nearly swept away, and the very earth flooded.

▪ The experiment had to be abandoned however as drenching rain was continuous and the tent was blown down.

▪ The flame of the wick was blown down to touch the paraffin in the body of the lamp.

▪ And she blew down a kiss.

▪ Yellowed newspaper pages blew down its streets in the monsoon wind.

hard

▪ And the wind blew hard on the tower and me.

▪ Strong winds late Sunday blew hard south, sending the acrid smell of a campfire through much of Phoenix.

▪ There was no wind, of course, but the ladies blew hard to move my boat along.

▪ When we reached our house, the wind was blowing hard in our faces.

in

▪ Or was it the east wind blowing in through the open bell tower with renewed force?

▪ Out to a distance of seventy-five kilometers, windows are blown in and shards of glass are accelerated to high speeds.

▪ There is Miss Malcolm blown in late again.

▪ Claudia opened her window and let the wind blow in on her face.

▪ A draught of cold air blew in.

▪ The first snowstorm blew in from the north, and crows crossed the sky before it like thrown black socks.

off

▪ The door on the left was blown off its hinges by strategically placed charges that slammed it flat on to the floor.

▪ He was distracted by what sounded like the roof blowing off.

▪ Just then her hat blew off into the road and d’Urberville stopped the horse.

▪ At this point, you will let out a scream suggesting that some one has just blown off your toe with a. 45.

▪ Early that January a bitter wind blowing off the far Urals seized East Anglia in a grip of ice.

▪ She just needed to blow off steam.

▪ Four people were injured, including a man whose legs were blown off.

▪ Winds up here reach 80 miles an hour; the tin, the roofs, they blow off every now and then.

out

▪ He had the car heater on and the whirring as it blew out hot air was beginning to annoy him.

▪ On November 13, 1932, four tremendous explosions blew out the entrances and exits of the two Arizona tunnels.

▪ The novelty was in the clean and smiling way he said them, blowing out gray smoke rings at the same time.

▪ The scare has been blown out of proportion, said John Marchello, professor of animal science at the University of Arizona.

▪ Myles blew out the lamp and placed it on the sideboard.

▪ He cupped his hand over his thing as if it were a flame that might blow out.

▪ He then shuffled around the room cupping his hand around the chimneys and blowing out one lamp after another.

▪ The blast wave is much too weak when it reaches sea level to blow out the flames.

over

▪ The wind is blowing, blowing over the grass.

▪ Carter was merely stunned by the reaction from the East; he was blown over backward by the reaction from the West.

▪ This meant that the gliders were then parked the wrong way and, being light, they often blew over.

▪ That way, nothing will blow over while you are preparing for the next step: installing the joists.&038;.

▪ If a glider was blown over with some one sitting inside it unstrapped, that person could be killed.

▪ The forgery scare had blown over, actually.

▪ He blew over his cocoa and gave Sammy some of the skin, feeling rather important at doing so.

▪ Days of fear and trembling until it blew over.

up

▪ Anwar blew up all over the place.

▪ That same agent blew up the room I had been in because I was getting too close.

▪ He blew up five city blocks, of course.

▪ Urban violence and civil unrest were mushrooming like small bombs threatening to blow up the machine from within.

▪ On June 8, 1910, Post was back to blow up 171 2-pound charges at three-minute intervals.

▪ It has been blown up by the Arabs.

▪ What did it take to make Paul blow up?

■ NOUN

balloon

▪ You look like you have blown up like a balloon and you feel that you are a complete dieting failure.

▪ Tell the students to blow up the balloon and then tape the straw to the balloon.

▪ Work quickly or keep the cutting material in a plastic bag blown up like a balloon and sealed.

▪ But there are two ways of blowing up a balloon.

▪ There was a game where you blew up balloons and sat on them.

▪ The first players then have to blow the balloons back for the second person to take over.

brain

▪ The bullet took him right between the eyes, blowing his brains out through the back of his head.

▪ In a few years you will blow your brains out, a bankrupt.

▪ There was a mercury pool for losers to reflect in while they blew their brains out.

▪ At that range she knew the gun would blow out her brains.

▪ Reading my dreams felt like a cool breeze blowing through my brain.

▪ Hunting rabbits with hawks is surely better than blowing their brains out with shotguns.

▪ The accused said that he would blow the victim’s brains out if he was not quiet.

▪ No wonder the scribblers on the hustings have so much stale garbage blowing around their brains.

breeze

▪ The next day was bright and cold, with a stiff breeze blowing straight down the field.

▪ Uncertain which way to go, Benny gradually became aware of a gentle breeze blowing from the right.

▪ It was winter at last and a cool breeze blew at night.

▪ When she pushes it open, and switches on the light, she finds the breeze blowing through broken windows.

▪ A gentle breeze blew through the windows, lightly rustling the curtains.

▪ A thin, bad-tempered breeze blew sand into our faces and whipped up under my skirt.

▪ A breeze blows through the palms below, rustling their branches, so they whisper like voices.

bubble

▪ That is why you can blow bubbles with soapy water.

▪ She would watch the ball, shading her eyes, and blow a pink bubble.

▪ Felt Hat blows a bubble with her gum.

▪ Bunny or not, he still could not blow bubbles with it.

▪ It will be all downhill after the guests blow bubbles or light sparklers as you leave the church.

candle

▪ When we left they blew out all the candles and remained in the dark tombs.

▪ Then blindfold them and invite them to take four steps backwards followed by four forward before trying to blow out the candle.

▪ Then, picking up his tomahawk, he blows out the candle and springs into bed.

▪ They gathered the flowers that had been left as offerings, they blew the floating candles out.

▪ Mike blew his candle out, and I did the same.

▪ With a sigh, Connor shut the door and bolted it, then blew out the candle and went upstairs.

▪ He blew our the candle and locked the door.

chance

▪ Oxford blew their chance to stake a claim in the promotion race.

▪ The Astros were 9-20 without him last August to blow their wild-card chances.

▪ Middlesbrough have blown their championship chance with two defeats in four days.

▪ He had already blown his chances and perhaps that was why he played a relaxed stroke.

▪ Before he’d blown his chance of happiness for ever.

course

▪ Bad weather can force an emergency landing or strong winds can blow them off course.

▪ All the old fusty stuff had to be blown away, of course, so we might be nearer to nature.

▪ A huge gust of energy blew him back on course.

cover

▪ Last week the Prime Ministerwent to Devon and blew its cover.

▪ They blew their cover story almost immediately.

▪ It would only take one phone call to blow her cover.

▪ But they have blown their cover.

▪ All the press had to do was to interview any one of the islanders to blow the government cover story wide open.

▪ But if you were arrested for murder they would have to be very careful not to blow their cover.

▪ One mistake could blow his cover and ruin years of careful work in the North.

▪ They want to use a customised version to help their overseas operatives communicate home and browse without blowing their cover.

dust

▪ Some one should dig it out from the carpet under which it was brushed and blow the dust off it.

▪ The wind began to blow, grass and dust whipping ahead of them as though fleeing the black cloud.

▪ Kobborg and Cojocaru blow away the dust.

▪ The crowd thinning around them, the wind that blew dust and papers past could not interrupt their looking at each other.

▪ The hot wind blows a storm of dust and leaves, and the women retreat into their houses.

▪ Between the moon and my see-through roof a purple storm was blowing the dust of some previous war into the waste spaces.

▪ The clay dries and cracks in the sun, and the top layers are blown off as dust.

▪ Otherwise blow out dust from the keyboard and clean keyboard casing. 5.

fuse

▪ Damian Flint does everything he possibly can to make me blow twenty-five fuses at once!

▪ Ken ran to Maurine and Hayes’s house, and Hayes rushed into our basement and replaced a blown fuse.

▪ I’ve even known him switch on a light without blowing all the fuses.

gale

▪ What would the position be if there was an exceptionally strong gale blowing at the time of the original road accident?

▪ When the autumn gales blew you could see the smoke being sucked out through the wall like water out of a leaky bucket.

▪ A gale may otherwise blow the whole fence over.

▪ She saved an old apple tree which the gale of 1987 had blown horizontal, but which sprouted again in the spring.

▪ His present place was shaky — a violent gale had just blown in the window panes and the frame was flapping loose.

glass

▪ The chocolates made her melt, sticky, gooey, and desire made her harden, glass blown by fire.

▪ The craft of glass blowing is vital to science, especially when researchers design experiments for which no containers are available.

▪ Everyone on the bridge of the Raubvogel ducked as a pane of glass was blown apart.

▪ After the glass is blown into the general shape, it is inspected.

▪ For contrast we went to the glass blowing factory for a demonstration of their skills.

▪ What collectors refer to as historical flasks are glass bottles blown into metal molds between about 1815 and 1870.

▪ They don’t wash the glasses there; they blow on them.

▪ At Jalame crucibles must have been necessary to allow the gathering of glass on a blowing iron.

horn

▪ Other angry motorists blew their horns and flashed rude two-finger salutes when they finally managed to overtake him.

▪ Then all three of the traders laughed together and sounded like a fleet of tugboats blowing their horns.

▪ As she turned uphill, a dark-red Daimler slid by, and blew its horn at her.

▪ When you blow the horn, it sounds blaring.

▪ Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

▪ We climbed up on to it; some one blew a horn and the beat started.

▪ Nanny hoisted her higher in her arms as the huntsman blew his horn and the hounds moved off.

kiss

▪ She blew a kiss to Tunney, and scampered up a wall like a spider.

▪ She blew him little kisses, and he felt love and pangs of something that frightened him.

▪ And she blew down a kiss.

▪ I wanted to blow her a kiss but there was nothing in me to send her way.

▪ Dinah was at the near window, saw him, and blew a kiss.

▪ Leyland blew kisses to his family behind the dugout.

▪ He gave them a huge grin and blew them a kiss.

▪ For him to blow a kiss to the gallery was one thing.

mind

▪ I sat down at the keyboard blowing my mind with Puccini.

▪ But then he blows his mind anyway.

▪ Even the pop posters were old, they blew my mind with boredom.

▪ One species, the ravens, already blows my mind.

▪ It is the catastrophic slippage in public respect which blows the minds of the apparatus.

▪ He estimated there were 100,000 of them, enough to blow the mind of an entire town.

nose

▪ She blew her nose as daintily as was possible in the circumstances and handed the handkerchief back with a wan smile.

▪ Jozia blew her red nose into her kerchief.

▪ With great discretion, the overcoats in the front pews blew their noses.

▪ For a moment Converse thought that she would blow her nose on him.

▪ He took his handkerchief from his pocket and blew his nose.

▪ Upstairs, Petey blew his nose and sipped water after finally giving up his dinner and feeling like he could walk again.

▪ Simpson grimaced, and blew his nose again.

proportion

▪ Female speaker I think it’s been blown up out of all proportion.

▪ Athletes are a mirror of society, even if sometimes their images are blown out of proportion.

▪ The whole thing, of course, is being blown up out of all proportion by the Western media.

▪ Likewise, the scare associated with the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was blown out of proportion.

▪ Things get blown out of proportion.

▪ He thought the whole incident had been blown up out of proportion.

▪ The issue was blown far out of proportion.

raspberry

▪ As I watched it soar over the crossbar,.Jamir stuck his tongue out in ridicule and blew a raspberry.

▪ I blew a raspberry, he blew two.

smithereens

▪ He remembered how innocently they had discussed which natives they would blow to smithereens and which they would grant a reprieve to.

smoke

▪ By the end of the evening she was puffing her cigarette and blowing the smoke at Miss Poole in the darkness.

▪ She’s lying on the bed, blowing smoke at the ceiling.

▪ Winnie whips out a stogie and starts puffing away, blowing smoke over to your table.

▪ One or two chimneys blew smoke at the edge of the scheme.

▪ People had been blowing cigarette smoke on to them for years.

▪ Kersey blew smoke rings and watched them with approval.

▪ He gnawed at his thick lower lip or blew smoke in my direction.

storm

▪ On both of the previous occasions, the area was evacuated and isolated until the storm blew itself apart.

▪ The storm had blown itself out, leaving the sky pearly.

▪ Ahab stands and fights fiercely against the storm which blows him away from his course.

▪ Between the moon and my see-through roof a purple storm was blowing the dust of some previous war into the waste spaces.

▪ The morning of the third day, they woke up and saw the storm had blown itself out.

▪ She could do nothing but batten down the conversational hatches and wait until the storm blew itself out.

▪ As he rounded the tip of Cape Horn, a storm blew up from the west.

top

▪ Whether the Ipswich directors who watched him blow his top with the unwitting journalist believe that is debatable.

▪ Lit came on the east stage and blew the top off Woodstock.

▪ The wind was blowing over the top of Jinny’s head, fluttering the loose, short hairs round her forehead.

▪ By blowing over the top of the paper, you made the air above the slow moving air strip move faster.

▪ It was unusual for Hauser to blow his top.

▪ Then suddenly he blew his top while walking down the street one day.

▪ It had me rolling on the floor to see Schmeichel blowing his top at the scum defence.

▪ Then Nature blows her top, just to remind us.

trumpet

▪ Most were reluctant, defensive, or simply hesitant to blow their own trumpet.

▪ Gordy started blowing on the trumpet in rhythm with her cries.

▪ For too long we Christians have heard the modern world blowing its own trumpet.

▪ Tonight, he could have shouted through the streets, blown a trumpet, waved a banner.

▪ Despite a unique record of achievement is recent years, he can never be accused of blowing his own trumpet.

▪ They are blowing trumpets singing up a storm and waving as they walk past us.

▪ The heraldry of day-to-day: a cat couchant on bricks; a baby in a push-chair blowing a trumpet very loudly.

▪ An angel hovered over their heads, blowing a yellow trumpet.

water

▪ But we could get blown out of the water….

▪ Steady offshore winds keep blowing the water westward where it becomes heated.

▪ It was as if his confidence, like a target decoy, had been blown clean out of the water.

▪ Cassius heard the fisherman blow the water from his snorkel.

▪ Again, if there had been a Thatcherite on the programme, the Labour expert would have been blown out of the water.

▪ Wind whipping across sandbar on opposite shore, sand blowing across water.

▪ That is why you can blow bubbles with soapy water.

whistle

▪ Such whistles were blown only during war to offer the warrior supernatural protection.

▪ All I could do was frantically reach for my safety whistle and blow like crazy to alert the raft crew.

▪ Just before the whistle blew Vernon thought she had seen him; at any rate she was looking in his direction.

▪ A shrill whistle is blown angrily by a shivering soldier, a sentry at the tomb.

▪ The whistle would blow and Aunt Dorothy would wave goodbye.

▪ Suddenly, all over Illinois, train whistles began blowing in the middle of the night.

▪ I blew my whistle till I blew the pea out of it.

wind

▪ The wind was blowing over the top of Jinny’s head, fluttering the loose, short hairs round her forehead.

▪ It was so much dust, and the slightest wind would blow it away.

▪ The wind is blowing, blowing over the grass.

▪ The wind blew strongly into the room.

▪ It would take some wind to blow me off.

▪ It represented a change of style, and this new wind threatened to blow away all that was dated and traditional.

▪ First high winds blow Stu Miller off the mound, forcing a balk, at Candlestick Park.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a glancing blow

▪ As Pegasus fought clear, I smelled smoke and felt a glancing blow which whirled me backwards and away.

▪ Gorbad bellowed in agony and swung Morgor wildly, catching Adolphus a glancing blow across the temple.

▪ He was standing on a piling at the ferry slip in Brooklyn when the ferry hit it a glancing blow.

▪ It leapt forward as Delaney cried out and struck it a glancing blow with the torch.

▪ Police believe Tony was struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a transit-type van.

▪ Tom struck his head a glancing blow, and blood came.

blow a gasket

▪ The next morning we found the aircraft had blown a gasket.

▪ They’ve got her started and she’s blown a gasket.

▪ We had blown a gasket and told them of our problem, but we did not declare an emergency.

blow sth sky-high

blow/clear the cobwebs away

▪ It will blow the cobwebs away.

▪ Talk about blowing the cobwebs away!

blow/go hot and cold

▪ Paula was going hot and cold by now.

▪ She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.

▪ Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.

blow/sod/bugger etc that for a lark

hammer blow

▪ Granny’s thoughts had the strength of hammer blows and they’d pounded her personality into the walls.

▪ It brought another hammer blow to Britain’s depressed farming industry.

▪ It was followed by a hammer blow that echoed like thunder through the steel hulk.

▪ Labour’s energy spokesman says the decision is bad news for the consumer and a hammer blow for the coal industry.

▪ She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow.

▪ Such speeds are far faster than any hammer blow and considerably faster than the flight of bullets.

▪ The sight was a hammer blow to Yuri Rudakov.

▪ The tunnels were quiet during the hammer blow of 1972.

it’s an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)

knock/blow sb’s socks off

▪ And yet the correlations just knock my socks off…

▪ So, he popped down to my office, stuck this demo on the turntable and it just blew my socks off.

▪ The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors.

▪ This in-your-face marketing could be forgiven if the food absolutely knocked your socks off.

knockout punch/blow

▪ And then, as if to deliver the knockout blow to his scheme, the phone rang.

▪ But the new West Indies proved encouragingly resilient, repeatedly getting up off the canvas to deliver the final knockout punch.

▪ Great passing; good running, but they lacked a knockout punch.

▪ He may not have a knockout punch, but he does have good moves all the way to the bell.

▪ If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year.

▪ It was a knockout punch of which Indurain, Hinault or Merckx would have been proud.

▪ That seven eighty-one was like a knockout punch.

▪ The business was reeling from what appeared to have been the knockout punch.

let/blow off steam

▪ Recess is a good chance for kids to blow off steam.

▪ It was recreation hour, explained Brother Andrew with a smile, and the Brothers were letting off steam.

▪ Jody lets her blow off steam first.

▪ Others have behavioural problems and need to let off steam in a safe and controlled setting.

▪ She just needed to blow off steam.

▪ So kicking the cat, biting a towel or pounding a pillow aren’t really much use, except for letting off steam.

▪ We let off steam in graffiti, vandalism and football hooliganism.

▪ You got upset, blew off steam.

▪ You want to let off steam?

mortal blow/danger/wound etc

▪ As she reads or hears the news reports of battles, she can ascertain whether he is in mortal danger.

▪ Hellenism no longer represented a mortal danger.

▪ His dragon had taken a mortal wound as he and Caledor clashed on the battlefield.

▪ Railroad traffic is a mortal danger.

▪ This rust-blood pouring from mortal wounds in the planet’s skin is a terrible indictment of the tyranny we climbers inflict.

▪ Yesterday, the joint shop stewards committee of Corporate Jets said a loss of production would be a mortal blow.

see which way the wind is blowing

smash/blow etc sth to smithereens

▪ He says an overweight lorry in a crash will smash a car to smithereens.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Blow on it, Ian — the oatmeal’s very hot.

▪ A warm breeze was blowing from the south.

▪ He blew smoke rings across the table.

▪ He won £500,000 in the National Lottery, but he’s already blown the lot.

▪ I put the balloon to my lips and blew as hard as I could.

▪ One of the tires blew and they skidded into the center divider.

▪ She blew the feather off her sleeve.

▪ The ornaments are made of blown glass.

▪ The referee blew his whistle to start the game.

▪ The whistle blew on the old steam engine.

▪ The wind must have blown the door shut.

▪ We blew $3000 on a trip to Barbados.

▪ You’re lucky you didn’t blow out the whole engine.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ He thinks one of the anti-Castro group is going to blow me away.

▪ His black hair was tousled, blown by the wind, shining strands of it across his brown forehead.

▪ On one of them was Blue Mooney, his pale blond hair blown against his cheek as he skidded around the corner.

▪ On the minus side, she’d blown a lot of money and received a couple of scares.

▪ She tried to open the door to the storage-room, but twice the wind blew it out of her hands.

▪ The scare has been blown out of proportion, said John Marchello, professor of animal science at the University of Arizona.

▪ The wind blew so hard the bread got stale in our hands.

▪ They know the way that the wind is blowing, and would be only too pleased to be redeployed into another trade.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

big

▪ He says that it’s a big blow, staff are very upset.

▪ A big blow came last summer, when Fortune magazine predicted legal and financial chaos for Hong Kong after 1997.

▪ The decision is a big blow to James but a welcome boost for Hooper.

▪ The card suffered a big blow when Phoenix junior-flyweight Michael Carbajal withdrew because of pneumonia.

▪ But the biggest blow was a cut of £200,000 in its council grant.

▪ Losing Harris and Prince would be the biggest blows, though.

▪ He says that the biggest blow came when Rank’s made thousands redundant in the eighties.

▪ Wilson knows which way the big national wind blows.

bitter

▪ It was a bitter blow when the trustees preferred the reprint.

▪ The loss of that partner through death, either shortly before retirement or afterwards, comes as a bitter blow.

▪ It was a particularly bitter blow for Leeds, because in the very first minute they should have levelled the tie.

▪ So defeat was a bitter blow to Dowding.

cruel

▪ That was a cruel blow for Howard Wilkinson’s team, who had made a committed, controlled and commanding start.

▪ This had been a cruel blow, but it wouldn’t stop her from ensuring that justice was done.

▪ It would have been an unnecessary and cruel blow for her to see her old home in its state of decay.

▪ The fact Pears could be ruled out of the crunch game at Molineux is a cruel blow after his superb season.

▪ It is a cruel blow and one that again underlines the inconsistency of the red card law.

▪ He wanted to give comfort, and protect her from the cruel blow life had dealt her.

▪ Yet with their very first attack, the visitors struck a cruel blow.

devastating

▪ A sharp run-down in the business would be a devastating blow to the local economy.

▪ That would be a devastating blow to the long-term unemployed.

▪ Her loss is a devastating blow to the standing of the monarchy.

▪ That was a devastating blow from which the constituency is struggling to recover.

▪ Forest struck a devastating first blow after 11 minutes.

▪ Shaking a little at first but gradually warming to his theme, the sacked Chancellor dealt John Major a devastating blow.

▪ The death of Osvaldo was a devastating blow to all Danuese patriots.

double

▪ Villa had suffered a double injury blow before manager Ron Atkinson had settled in the dugout.

▪ However, the danger is that the double blow of recession and Royal Mail reorganisation could make that first rung very narrow.

▪ The double blow left the 43-year-old Grease star numb with shock.

▪ It was a double blow, too, for Morris.

fatal

▪ But the elections were a further, and fatal, blow.

▪ His presidential hopes thus suffered a fatal blow in the snow drifts of New Hampshire.

▪ For the prosecution case to stand, it will be necessary to prove that Lenny McLean struck the fatal blow.

▪ This was the first time he dealt a fatal blow without intending it.

▪ Experts claim that at least half were inflicted well before the fatal blow.

▪ The woman had lashed out in fear and given the bird a fatal blow, feathers everywhere.

▪ He had not delivered the fatal blows, he had not pulled the trigger.

▪ Who might strike the fatal blow this time?

final

▪ The final blow for many firms was the government’s abolition of import duties which resulted in a flood of cheap imports.

▪ Practices which have characterised the details of your daily living from the cradle upwards are dealt a swift and final blow.

▪ The final blow for Philip was the defection of his chancellor, Conrad, bishop of Würzburg.

further

▪ This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him.

glancing

▪ It leapt forward as Delaney cried out and struck it a glancing blow with the torch.

▪ Gorbad bellowed in agony and swung Morgor wildly, catching Adolphus a glancing blow across the temple.

▪ Police believe Tony was struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a transit-type van.

great

▪ It will be a greater blow than would be a dozen pogroms.

▪ It was a great blow to all the family. 1962 brought more shocks for Salvationists in Rhodesia.

▪ Stalingrad was the greatest single blow of the war.

▪ Her death in April 1994 was the second great blow in his life.

hard

▪ He had struggled to his feet, but then felt a really hard blow on the face.

▪ Good fortune can be as bewildering as a hard blow sometimes.

▪ It’s a hard blow to stop.

▪ It was the hardest blow he had ever taken.

▪ He survived a hard blow to the jaw in the dying seconds to win 20-10.

heavy

▪ Now think again of the wound on Hector’s face — a heavy blow, a wide gash.

▪ I am not wholly barren of hope, for circumstances have been dealing the conventional wisdom a new series of heavy blows.

▪ It is knocked to the ground by a heavy blow, seized by the throat or mouth and quickly suffocated.

▪ For the beneficiaries the change would be almost imperceptible: for the losers it would be a heavy blow.

▪ He says that both changes will be a heavy blow for young self-employed workers.

▪ The repression which followed temporarily halted the labour movement and dealt the party a heavy blow.

▪ Obituary: Carlo Verrri. Heavy blow to Alitalia:.

huge

▪ But the study is a huge blow to the transplant programme, criticised not least because of the huge costs involved.

▪ It was a huge blow to him.

knockout

▪ If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year.

low

▪ Trinidad was warned for low blows twice by referee Mitch Halpern.

▪ He respected Ray and his willingness to fight for his ideals, but this was a low blow.

major

▪ The loss of the plant would have been a major blow to the local economy.

▪ This is a major blow, perhaps a turning point.

▪ It then takes a major blow to fracture it.

▪ However, its fall is another major blow to the rebels.

▪ That would be a major blow for the airline.

▪ Dundee also suffered a major blow when player/manager Simon Stainrod limped off seven minutes from the interval.

▪ Losing his international place two years ago was also a major blow.

▪ Losses are expected to top £100m this year, a major blow to the company’s 40,000 employees.

mortal

▪ Yesterday, the joint shop stewards committee of Corporate Jets said a loss of production would be a mortal blow.

▪ It was not a mortal blow in the style of Lord Howe who brought about the downfall of Margaret Thatcher.

▪ Though Canary’s death was a mortal blow to the film, the groundwork he had laid carried the project forward.

serious

▪ Like the contagious diseases defeat, Simon’s resignation was received as a serious blow by the medical profession.

▪ But politically, the rebellion in the Cabinet is a serious and telling blow.

▪ The Taff Vale decision was a serious blow to trade unionism.

▪ This year, that amount could plummet to $ 1 million, a serious blow to the already financially struggling tribe.

▪ A person who is quickly back on his or her feet after a serious blow.

▪ The decision also represented a serious blow to the morale of the regulatory authorities.

▪ His departure will, of course, be a serious blow to our hopes of pulling away from the foot of the table.

▪ It is being said with some conviction that Labour inflicted a serious blow on itself with that Sheffield monster rally.

severe

▪ The failure of the Accord was also a severe blow to Mulroney and prompted opposition calls for his resignation.

▪ This was a severe blow because we needed him desperately.

▪ Pittsburgh suffered a severe blow, however, when quarterback Neil O’Donnell broke his right leg.

▪ This is a severe blow to the Fernandez family.

▪ Bank Assistants have suffered a severe blow.

▪ That could deliver a severe financial blow to the county.

▪ Pentrite can explode without a detonator if it receives a severe blow or strong friction.

▪ Finally, the cutting of trade with the United States from 1985 was a severe blow.

sharp

▪ With the exact position established, the outline can be scored with sharp blows from a club hammer and bolster chisel.

▪ The bird-swat includes the same approach, but then ends with an upward leap and a sharp blow with the front foot.

▪ The sharpest financial blow came in mid-1939, when the owner of Bunce Court decided she wanted to sell the freehold.

▪ Another sharp blow hit him between his shoulder-blades.

▪ She felt a sharp blow to her arm and gasped, retreating further.

single

▪ The lock shattered with a single blow of the sledgehammer and they were in.

▪ There was no acceptable explanation for the injuries, and the injuries were consistent with a single blow.

▪ He found the spot where the three reeds were growing and at a single blow cut down all three with his sword.

▪ Stalingrad was the greatest single blow of the war.

▪ It looks as if he was struck by a single blow and died where he fell.

▪ Baking makes chestnuts brittle, which means they can be knocked off their string with a single blow.

▪ I agree that he was probably killed by a single blow and that wooden mallet on the table seems the likely weapon.

▪ Drums with single blows merging into a volley, resembling a creaking branch.

terrible

▪ Female speaker It’s a terrible blow just on top of everything else.

▪ The outcome of the campaign was a terrible blow to the burdened President.

▪ I knew it would be a terrible blow to Marxism-Leninism.

▪ His untimely loss is a terrible blow to all of us who knew and cared for him.

▪ She says closing the college would be a terrible blow — it’s used by thousands of people.

▪ How it all happened I now don’t quite know, Except that my nose stopped a terrible blow.

■ NOUN

body

▪ Suddenly the confidence of the new radicals received a body blow.

▪ The heat had gradually become an expected body blow which was endurable with certain rules.

▪ The news was a body blow and for several months the company was on a knife edge.

▪ But tomorrow, with just a few words, the Chancellor could deal the company a body blow.

▪ Every tale — depressing as it is in its own right represents another body blow to the leasing industry.

▪ The news Herrmann brought was like a body blow.

death

▪ The fact that they have seen nothing is by no means an immediate death blow for all grand unified theories.

▪ The death blow to drug chic actually may have been struck by a fast-food chain.

▪ The death blow to the Aksumite kingdom came in the tenth century from unassimilated Agaw in the south.

▪ Neither, however, will be a death blow.

▪ Was it however so paradoxical as to have dealt a death blow to the theory?

hammer

▪ Such speeds are far faster than any hammer blow and considerably faster than the flight of bullets.

▪ The tunnels were quiet during the hammer blow of 1972.

▪ It brought another hammer blow to Britain’s depressed farming industry.

▪ She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow.

▪ Labour’s energy spokesman says the decision is bad news for the consumer and a hammer blow for the coal industry.

▪ Granny’s thoughts had the strength of hammer blows and they’d pounded her personality into the walls.

▪ The sight was a hammer blow to Yuri Rudakov.

▪ It was followed by a hammer blow that echoed like thunder through the steel hulk.

■ VERB

cushion

▪ To cushion the blow, wages and pensions were increased.

▪ Additionally, two presidential decrees on March 23 had been designed to cushion the blow of the price rises.

▪ There was no way to cushion the blow.

▪ Even where price increases have taken place, retailers with good stocks may be able to cushion the blow for a while.

▪ The thick, air-filled bone of the skull helps to cushion the blow.

▪ Colonel Goreng broke the news to me, making no effort to cushion the blow.

deal

▪ It also dealt a blow to his testimonial, which nevertheless realised more than £2000.

▪ This was the first time he dealt a fatal blow without intending it.

▪ Once more the war had dealt an unfair blow to Otago cricket.

▪ Every blow of his was parried, though I dealt no blows in return.

▪ But it will deal a blow to the agreement, which allows publishers to set a minimum price for most books.

▪ His stance was apologetic, almost cringing as if he expected to be dealt a blow.

▪ Mickey had a ramp with pea sized objects rolling down to be dealt a mighty blow from a spring loaded mallet.

▪ They have enough problems avoiding the stones they are throwing among themselves to be dealt such an additional blow.

deflect

▪ He deflected the blow, and the razor edge cut deep into the gunwale of the ship.

▪ Scathach pushed her away, turning her in time to deflect the blow from another raider.

▪ As the knife flashed down, aimed at his heart, Connor deflected the blow with his left forearm.

deliver

▪ Furthermore, its flexibility and power of movement are considerably greater, so that less power is needed to deliver a blow.

▪ She stood her ground and got an almighty shove from Vassily, who smiled at me apologetically as he delivered the blow.

▪ Government forces delivered a critical blow to the rebels on March 7 when the Defence Ministry’s communication links were severed.

▪ By the late 1880s there was nothing terribly mysterious about getting a steam hammer to deliver a blow of so many tons.

▪ Our final rehearsal before Farnham, however, delivered the cruellest blow so far.

▪ When he delivered his last blow, he avoided my face, and looked worried.

▪ He had not delivered the fatal blows, he had not pulled the trigger.

▪ That could deliver a severe financial blow to the county.

exchange

▪ Two figures were battling furiously, exchanging blows as they materialized.

▪ While the men exchanged blows the girl struck Farini from behind with a blunt instrument.

▪ They rolled over and over on the damp moss, exchanging blows and vile words until finally Topaz’s strength ran out.

land

▪ The darker boy rallied and eventually landed more and heavier blows.

▪ The official unions will have to compete directly with Solidarity for members, so they want to land the first blows.

▪ Sharpe hacked again, this time landing a blow on the back of the helmet.

▪ Johnson counter-punched, landing three telling blows.

▪ This time, he hardly landed a blow as the majestic Christie cruised home.

receive

▪ Like the contagious diseases defeat, Simon’s resignation was received as a serious blow by the medical profession.

▪ His adventure began during a practice game against the Minnesota Vikings when he received a blow to the head.

▪ Her eyebrow had received the blow from the torch and had begun to throb; she could feel a trickle of blood.

▪ I used to duck and cover my face, receiving ten blows instead of one.

▪ As they straighten, curve the spine and pull in the tummy, as if you have just received a blow.

▪ As he received the blow his face writhed and he gasped with pain.

▪ Agnes went to pick her up and received a blow from an elbow that sent her across the room.

▪ He went down to protest and himself began to receive blows.

soften

▪ Help, or soften the blow.?

▪ There was no warning, no softening of the blow.

▪ Or will motherhood soften the blow?

▪ Try starting with a pat on the back to soften the blow of criticism.

▪ The Chancellor’s flexibility to reduce interest rates much further, to soften the blow of tax increases, looks limited.

▪ Factories had closed, and thousands were out of work, without unemployment insurance to soften the blow.

▪ But you can soften the blow by telling his Dad that none of the other dads can do it either.

▪ Letting some one resign is a way to soften the blow.

strike

▪ But Kevin Curren struck some crucial blows — runs that Warwickshire could ill afford to concede at this stage of the match.

▪ They were certainly striking a blow for short people.

▪ Let us strike the blow which is to restore peace and union to this distracted land.

▪ Eventually, one of them attacked it with a large branch, striking it a damaging blow.

▪ The guard made a point of gazing into the distance as he struck his blows.

▪ Some one ought to strike a blow for women and show this vain man that he was utterly resistible!

suffer

▪ Villa had suffered a double injury blow before manager Ron Atkinson had settled in the dugout.

▪ His presidential hopes thus suffered a fatal blow in the snow drifts of New Hampshire.

▪ Pittsburgh suffered a severe blow, however, when quarterback Neil O’Donnell broke his right leg.

▪ The card suffered a big blow when Phoenix junior-flyweight Michael Carbajal withdrew because of pneumonia.

▪ In addition to the papal disregard of Canterbury’s primatial claim over York, the monastic community suffered another grievous blow.

▪ Bank Assistants have suffered a severe blow.

▪ Aside from the engine failure Stiletto suffered a tyre blow out.

▪ Maesteg suffered a blow yesterday when they learnt captain and centre Huw Woodland will be sidelined for another month.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a glancing blow

▪ As Pegasus fought clear, I smelled smoke and felt a glancing blow which whirled me backwards and away.

▪ Gorbad bellowed in agony and swung Morgor wildly, catching Adolphus a glancing blow across the temple.

▪ He was standing on a piling at the ferry slip in Brooklyn when the ferry hit it a glancing blow.

▪ It leapt forward as Delaney cried out and struck it a glancing blow with the torch.

▪ Police believe Tony was struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a transit-type van.

▪ Tom struck his head a glancing blow, and blood came.

blow sth sky-high

blow/clear the cobwebs away

▪ It will blow the cobwebs away.

▪ Talk about blowing the cobwebs away!

blow/go hot and cold

▪ Paula was going hot and cold by now.

▪ She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.

▪ Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.

blow/sod/bugger etc that for a lark

come as a surprise/relief/blow etc (to sb)

▪ And this might come as a surprise to our brethren in the popular national press — Thirty-eight.

▪ Buller’s Hill House came as a surprise.

▪ Her answer came as a surprise.

▪ It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter.

▪ Nevertheless, he said the sharp drop in the book-to-bill came as a surprise.

▪ Nor should it come as a surprise that these rules frequently get S corporation owners into trouble.

▪ So it comes as a surprise to discover that this is not always the case.

▪ This should not come as a surprise to people who are free.

deal a blow (to sb/sth)

▪ But it will deal a blow to the agreement, which allows publishers to set a minimum price for most books.

▪ His stance was apologetic, almost cringing as if he expected to be dealt a blow.

▪ It also dealt a blow to his testimonial, which nevertheless realised more than £2000.

▪ Very many died without ever a chance of dealing a blow in return.

exchange blows (with sb)

▪ They rolled over and over on the damp moss, exchanging blows and vile words until finally Topaz’s strength ran out.

▪ Two figures were battling furiously, exchanging blows as they materialized.

▪ While the men exchanged blows the girl struck Farini from behind with a blunt instrument.

hammer blow

▪ Granny’s thoughts had the strength of hammer blows and they’d pounded her personality into the walls.

▪ It brought another hammer blow to Britain’s depressed farming industry.

▪ It was followed by a hammer blow that echoed like thunder through the steel hulk.

▪ Labour’s energy spokesman says the decision is bad news for the consumer and a hammer blow for the coal industry.

▪ She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow.

▪ Such speeds are far faster than any hammer blow and considerably faster than the flight of bullets.

▪ The sight was a hammer blow to Yuri Rudakov.

▪ The tunnels were quiet during the hammer blow of 1972.

it’s an ill wind (that blows nobody any good)

knock/blow sb’s socks off

▪ And yet the correlations just knock my socks off…

▪ So, he popped down to my office, stuck this demo on the turntable and it just blew my socks off.

▪ The current crop of non-Windows databases can knock the socks off their predecessors.

▪ This in-your-face marketing could be forgiven if the food absolutely knocked your socks off.

knockout punch/blow

▪ And then, as if to deliver the knockout blow to his scheme, the phone rang.

▪ But the new West Indies proved encouragingly resilient, repeatedly getting up off the canvas to deliver the final knockout punch.

▪ Great passing; good running, but they lacked a knockout punch.

▪ He may not have a knockout punch, but he does have good moves all the way to the bell.

▪ If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year.

▪ It was a knockout punch of which Indurain, Hinault or Merckx would have been proud.

▪ That seven eighty-one was like a knockout punch.

▪ The business was reeling from what appeared to have been the knockout punch.

land a punch/blow etc

▪ Flaws’ Nigel’s style includes getting caught with punches in order to land punches.

▪ He shot out his right arm and landed a punch on Lorrimer’s nose.

▪ Sharpe hacked again, this time landing a blow on the back of the helmet.

▪ The first tried to land a punch, but he missed.

▪ This time, he hardly landed a blow as the majestic Christie cruised home.

let/blow off steam

▪ Recess is a good chance for kids to blow off steam.

▪ It was recreation hour, explained Brother Andrew with a smile, and the Brothers were letting off steam.

▪ Jody lets her blow off steam first.

▪ Others have behavioural problems and need to let off steam in a safe and controlled setting.

▪ She just needed to blow off steam.

▪ So kicking the cat, biting a towel or pounding a pillow aren’t really much use, except for letting off steam.

▪ We let off steam in graffiti, vandalism and football hooliganism.

▪ You got upset, blew off steam.

▪ You want to let off steam?

mortal blow/danger/wound etc

▪ As she reads or hears the news reports of battles, she can ascertain whether he is in mortal danger.

▪ Hellenism no longer represented a mortal danger.

▪ His dragon had taken a mortal wound as he and Caledor clashed on the battlefield.

▪ Railroad traffic is a mortal danger.

▪ This rust-blood pouring from mortal wounds in the planet’s skin is a terrible indictment of the tyranny we climbers inflict.

▪ Yesterday, the joint shop stewards committee of Corporate Jets said a loss of production would be a mortal blow.

rain (down) blows/blows rain down

receive an injury/blow

▪ Agnes went to pick her up and received a blow from an elbow that sent her across the room.

▪ As they straighten, curve the spine and pull in the tummy, as if you have just received a blow.

▪ Ben stood transfixed with disbelief, his mouth open, as if he had received a blow across it.

▪ For his outspokenness, he received a blow to the skull which sent him reeling.

▪ He went down to protest and himself began to receive blows.

▪ His adventure began during a practice game against the Minnesota Vikings when he received a blow to the head.

▪ It was almost as if I had received a blow to the heart.

▪ Wilson received an injury in the third minute, but that didn’t hamper his stand on the game.

ride a punch/blow

smash/blow etc sth to smithereens

▪ He says an overweight lorry in a crash will smash a car to smithereens.

strike a blow for sb/sth

▪ Little Bill in drag strikes a blow for the downtrodden girls.

▪ Some one ought to strike a blow for women and show this vain man that he was utterly resistible!

▪ They were certainly striking a blow for short people.

trade insults/blows etc

▪ He was more than prepared to trade blows with the former circus act Benichou.

▪ The two camps traded insults, moans and jeers, threatening occasionally to turn the proceedings into an intramural debate.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ a blow to the stomach

▪ His championship hopes were dealt a savage blow last night when he received a hamstring injury.

▪ Not being allowed to return to her own country was a blow from which she never really recovered.

▪ Officer Stacey was knocked over by a sharp blow to the head.

▪ The blow proved fatal.

▪ The assailant struck several blows before he was restrained.

▪ The Colorado river was closed, a bitter blow to rafters and kayakers who may have to wait seven years for a river use permit.

▪ three heavy blows from the hammer

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ For the prosecution case to stand, it will be necessary to prove that Lenny McLean struck the fatal blow.

▪ He had a robust self-esteem, even though this was a blow, and he needed financially to continue working.

▪ He kept coming, taking ten blows for one.

▪ It is a sweeping blow and only one who has seen them in action knows how tremendous it is.

▪ One jarring blow crushed it all.

▪ One of the knife blows had punctured a lung.

▪ The blue rose on stubby wings, twisting acrobatically to slip the blow.

▪ Tony smiled and without moving his left knee dodged the blows, his torso jinking, neck muscles popping.

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lists) and then choose Set Numbering Value…:

When you open the box while the list is selected, these option buttons are enabled and one is selected:

• Start new list: Starts the numbering sequence over from 1. You might use this to place two
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