Definition of Blown

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Definition of Blown

Blown

of Blow

Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas.

Stale; worthless.

Out of breath; tired; exhausted.

Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; fly blown.

Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower.

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Blown Quotations

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
William Osler

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Albert Schweitzer

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
e. e. cummings

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
Richard M. Nixon

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Dean Koontz

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
Simone de Beauvoir

I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
Drew Barrymore

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.
Jules Renard

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
Loren Eiseley

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell

Blown Translations

blown in German is geblasen, geschneuzt, geblasen

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