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say it: bloh
blow is a verb and noun meaning "exhale hard". It carries 30 recorded senses.
provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation
leave; informal or rude
“shove off!”
“The children shoved along”
“Blow now!”
“let's blow this place”
cause to be revealed and jeopardized
“The story blew their cover”
“The double agent was blown by the other side”
street names for cocaine
forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
“he gave his nose a loud blow”
“he blew out all the candles with a single puff”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blow come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.