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      blow
      noun
      A strong wind.
      (informal) A chance to catch one's breath.
      (uncountable, US, slang) Powder cocaine.
      (uncountable, UK, slang) Cannabis.
      (informal, vulgar) A blowjob; fellatio.
      (nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.
      An instance of the act of striking or hitting.
      A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
      A damaging occurrence.
      (Australia, New Zealand) An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.
      (television) Synonym of button (“the punchy or suspenseful line of dialogue that concludes a scene”).
      A state of flowering; a bloom.
      A display or mass of flowers; a yield.
      (figurative) A display of anything bright or brilliant.
      A surname.
      (uncountable, Chicago dialectal, slang) Heroin.
      (Australia, shearing, historical) A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.
      verb
      (intransitive) To produce an air current.
      (transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
      (intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
      (transitive, figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
      (transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
      (transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
      (transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.
      (transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing (as a musical instrument).
      (intransitive) To make a sound as a result of being blown.
      (intransitive, of a cetacean) To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.
      (intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly
      (transitive, with "up" or with prep phrase headed by "to") To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.
      (transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.
      (intransitive) To suddenly fail or give way destructively.
      (ergative, of a fuse) To melt away because of overcurrent, creating a gap in a wire, thus stopping a circuit from operating.
      (transitive, slang) To recklessly squander.
      (transitive, informal, idiomatic) To fail at; to mess up; to make a mistake in.
      (intransitive, stative, slang, sometimes considered vulgar) To be very undesirable.
      (transitive, vulgar) To perform oral sex on (someone); to fellate.
      (transitive, slang) To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.
      (Scientology, intransitive) To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.
      (transitive) To make flyblown; to defile or spoil, especially with fly eggs.
      (intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed (in flesh or meat).
      (intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
      (transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.
      (intransitive, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular) To sing.
      (intransitive, slang, colloquial) To flatulate or defecate.
      To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
      (dated, intransitive) To talk loudly; boast; brag.
      (slang, dated, transitive) To slander, insult, critique or discredit (someone); to reprimand or scold (someone).
      (transitive, historical, military) To blow from a gun (method of executing a person).
      (obsolete, transitive) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
      (obsolete, transitive) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
      (UK, slang, archaic, transitive) To expose, or inform on.
      adjective
      (chiefly dialectal Northern England or puristic, otherwise obsolete) Blue.
      Synonyms for blow
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