Meaning of BLOWN
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- [adj] breathing laboriously or convulsively
- [adj] being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor; "blown clouds of dust choked the riders"; "blown soil mounded on the window sill"
- [adj] (of glass) formed by forcing air into a molten ball; "blown glass"
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| | Synonyms: | | breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic, formed, gasping, moving, out of breath(p), panting, pursy, short-winded, winded |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Blown\, p. p. & a.
1. Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when
gorged with green food which develops gas.
2. Stale; worthless.
3. Out of breath; tired; exhausted. ``Their horses much
blown.'' --Sir W. Scott.
4. Covered with the eggs and larv[ae] of flies; fly blown.
\Blown\, p. p. & a.
Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower. --Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | blasted, bleak, blighted, despoiled, exposed, flyblown, frowsty, frowsy, frowy, frowzy, fusty, gamy, high, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, off, rancid, rank, ravaged, raw, reechy, smutted, smutty, sour, soured, stale, strong, tainted, turned, weevily, windblown, windswept, worm-eaten, wormy |
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