blew
/bluː/verb
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To produce an air current.
To propel by an air current.
Example: Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
To be propelled by an air current.
Example: The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.
To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.
verb
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To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
noun
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The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and violet in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
A blue dye or pigment.
Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
Blue clothing
Example: The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
adjective
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Of the colour blue.
Example: the deep blue sea
Depressed, melancholic, sad.
Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.
Example: The candle burns blue.
Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.
adjective
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(entertainment) Pornographic or profane.
Example: The air was blue with oaths.