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Meaning of blew

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

blew

Pronunciation:/bluː/

verb

Definitions

  1. To produce an air current.

  2. To propel by an air current.

    Example: Blow the dust off that book and open it up.

  3. To be propelled by an air current.

    Example: The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.

  4. To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.

verb

Definitions

  1. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

noun

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. A blue dye or pigment.

  3. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.

  4. Blue clothing

    Example: The boys in blue marched to the pipers.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Of the colour blue.

    Example: the deep blue sea

  2. Depressed, melancholic, sad.

  3. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

    Example: The candle burns blue.

  4. Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

adjective

Definitions

  1. (entertainment) Pornographic or profane.

    Example: The air was blue with oaths.