(v. t.) To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).
(n.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.
(n.) A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
(n.) A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.
(n.) The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.
(v. i.) To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
(v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
(v. i.) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
(v. i.) To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
(v. i.) To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
(v. i.) To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
(v. i.) To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.
(v. t.) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.
(v. t.) To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.
(v. t.) To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ.
(v. t.) To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.
(v. t.) To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; -- usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.
(v. t.) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.
(v. t.) To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.
(v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.
(v. t.) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.
(v. t.) To deposit eggs or larvae upon, or in (meat, etc.).
(n.) A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
(n.) The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.
(n.) The spouting of a whale.
(n.) A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.
(n.) An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(2) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(3) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
(4) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(5) Drainage of contrast medium from the maxillary sinus during blowing and sniffing was studied by cine-roentgenography in 11 healthy subjects.
(6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(7) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
(8) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(9) Hagan’s defeat came as a shock and a heavy blow for the Democratic party in North Carolina, a purple state that now has no Democratic senator or governor for the first time in 30 years.
(10) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
(11) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(12) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
(13) The departure of Emmerson – who said in a statement that no allegations had been put to him – is a huge blow.
(14) On second impacts, the GSI rose considerably because the shell and liner of the DH-151 cracked and the suspension of the "141" stretched during the first blow.
(15) The files, which were made available to the Guardian , the New York Times and the German weekly Der Spiegel, give a blow-by-blow account of the fighting over the last six years, which has so far cost the lives of more than 320 British and more than 1,000 US troops.
(16) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(17) Pure blow-out fracture or comminuted facial fracture, double vision and amnesia emerged as additional factors which yielded an efficient scoring system with a sensitivity of 89% and specificity of 90% for the population upon which it was based.
(18) It would strike a blow against its excessively adversarial ways of working, the two sides of a divided house braying at each other across the floor.
(19) However, a no show from the leader of the Commonwealth's biggest member would be a huge blow to the credibility of the organisation.
(20) All of which would be perfectly normal (after all, if there's anything valencianos love more than blowing off their fingers, it's complaining about their team) but for one thing: it was only just after half past nine and there was still an hour to go against hated rivals Real Madrid.
Breeze
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Breeze fly
(n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
(n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
(n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
(n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
(v. i.) To blow gently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
(2) He "jumped without hesitation", said official sources quoted in the Daily Breeze.
(3) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
(4) The only sound was the breeze whispering to the grass: splendour in solitude.
(5) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
(6) As the heat of a desert sunrise bears down on the breeze-block walls of the Visión En Acción asylum, casualties and refugees from the most dangerous city in the world begin another day.
(7) In Zanzibar she lived in a modest breeze-block house with some of her "grandchildren" and their pigeons.
(8) But here, in our PS4 demo, everything is rendered in exquisite detail with real-time sunlight pouring in over the undulating mountains, reflecting over grasslands that sway in the breeze.
(9) The notion drifted away on the Istanbul breeze in the second-half, particularly after he had been forced to substitute Ramsey and Mathieu Flamini at half-time.
(10) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
(11) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
(12) Crowley, adds Breeze, “was many things and excelled at most: a record-setting mountaineer, a competition-level chess player, the best metrical poet of his generation in the estimation of some, a literary critic of international reputation, an innovative editor and book designer, a pioneer in the use of entheogens, and a lion of sexual liberation – he was above all a lover, of men, women, gods, goddesses and himself”.
(13) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
(14) One clip shows Yeates breezing into the shop, allowing the door to swing closed behind her.
(15) "I have felt like St Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us … and the Lord seemed to be sleeping," he said.
(16) There is an abundance of wildlife here in summer, holly blue butterflies flutter on the breeze and buzzards circle high overhead.
(17) The occurrence of high concentrations of a PCB (Aroclor 1254) in the Pensacola estuary prompted field and laboratory studies by the Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA).
(18) The architecture of the city acts as a giant cooling system that funnels Atlantic breezes through shaded streets in a triumph of civil engineering.
(19) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
(20) This created a single new company with a different name, Solar Breeze (Consolidated) Limited.