Blow Out

Definition: Blow Out

Blow Out

Verb

1. Melt, break, or become otherwise unusable; "The lightbulbs blew out"; "The fuse blew".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Synonyms: Blow Out

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Gluttony

Good cheer, blow out; feast; (food); gastronomy, batterie de cuisine.

Insulation, Fire extinction

Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.

Killing

Die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.

Crosswords: Blow Out

Blow out your candle and say you love Satan (Ricky 6; writing credit: Peter Filardi)

Just blow out the candles and have a piece of cake (Happy Birthday; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

The Blow Out (1936)

High School Blow Out (1985)

Blow Out (1981)

Books

• Blow Out (reference)

• Blow Out the Wishbone (reference)

• Blow out! : Norsk oljepolitikk, penger foran sikkerhet? (reference)

• Busy O'Brien and the Great Bubble Gum Blow Out (reference)

• The Blow Out Affair (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blow Out (reference)

• Big Blow Out (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Dixon Bay well site - seen of a blow out and oil spill as seen from the air. Credit: America's Coastlines.

East Timbalier Island, booms are placed to contain oil. The island was seriously impacted by Hurricane Andrew, after the oil blow out restoration plans included creating marshes near the breaks in the island to stabilize the island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An image showing dredge material that was added to the area in front of the production facility. This area had the largest contiguous remaining marsh after hurricane Andrew passed through. The restoration project conducted with the oil blow out settlement funds created approximately 22 acres of marsh to help stabilize East Timbalier Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

This image shows the sheen that occurred after the blow out. It runs through the boom and out the cuts in the island created by Hurricane Andrew. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

During the spill at the well blow out site, oil on the Gulf side of East Timbalier Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Now for the big blow out!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stump farmer prepares to blow out tamarack stump. Shown tamping in dynamite in prepared hole. Bonner County, Idaho. Credit: Library of Congress.

Expressions using "blow out": blow out a candle ♦ blow out job ♦ blow out of the water ♦ blow out one's brains ♦ blow out preventer ♦ to blow out. Additional references.

Albanian

shuaj (beat out, blanket, Burke, clean off, damp, delete, douse, drown, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, kill, obliterate, out, quash, quell, quench, rake out, remove, scratch out, settle, slack, slake, suppress, turn off, ungear, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wither), qetësohem (abate, calm down, cool down, cool off, die down, grow quiet, heal, rage, settle down, simmer down, subside), fryj (be sulky, blow, breathe, buzz off, clear off, distend, inflate, overblow, pout at, puff, puff out, swell, wind). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تنطفئ الشمعة, ‏خرج عن طوره, ‏إنفجر (blaze, blow up, break, burst, crack, erupt, rupture, spew forth, split), ‏أطفأ (douse, extinguish, go out, put out, quench, snuff out, stamp out, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

угасям, хвръквам (blow off), гася (extinguish, quench, slack, slake, stifle), надувам (blow, inflate, swell), пукам се (swell with), изгарям от претоварване, изгарям (blight, blow, burn, burn away, burn out, burn up, consume, cremate, fuse, go phut, incinerate, parch, scorch), издувам (blow off, puff, swell), духвам (blow, insufflate, mizzle, mosey, puff out). (various references)

Czech

zhasit (douse, extinguish, put out). (various references)

Danish

udblæsning (blowing, blowing of a well, to blow out). (various references)

Dutch

putuitbarsting (blowing, blowing of a well), eruptie (eruption). (various references)

Finnish

purkaus (discharge, eruption, outburst), puhaltaa sammuksiin, mennä puhki (burst open). (various references)

French

s'éteindre, projection (blowing, blowing of a well), jaillissement (blowing, blowing of a well), faire exploser (blast), éteindre, éruption (blowing, blowing of a well), éclater (blaze, blow up), éclatement (blow-out). (various references)

German

eruptiver Ausbruch (blowing, blowing of a well), aufblähen (inflate), aufblasen (inflate, blow up), ausblasen (to blow out), ausbrechen (break out, erupt), Ausbruch (eruption, outbreak, outburst, raptures), ausgehen (go out), auspusten (puff out), durchbrennen (burn out, burn through), aufbauschen (exaggerate), Eruption (eruption), verpuffen (fall flat, go pop, to deflagrate), löschen (erase, erasure, delete, clear, pay off, quench, redeem, slake, zap), platzen (burst, explode), schlagartiges Entweichen, schlagartiges Entweichen von Reaktorkuehlmittel, sich aufbauschen (belly, belly out, billow, billow out, blow up), sich aufblähen (become swollen, belly out, billow out, puff oneself up), sich legen (lie down), Sondenausbruch (blowing, blowing of a well), einen ausbruch haben. (various references)

Greek 

σβήνω (delete, die out, extinguish, go out, quench). (various references)

Hebrew 

לכבות בנשיפה (snuff), תקר (flat, puncture), נשיפה (exhalation, expiration, puff). (various references)

Hungarian

rövidzárlat (short), kiolvad (to blow out), kialszik (to blow out, to burn out, to die out, to expire), gumidefekt (blow-out), elolt (to slake, to smother, to turn off), elfúj (to blow out, to puff out, to whiff), defekt (puncture, break-down). (various references)

Indonesian

membusakan (blow up). (various references)

Italian

spegnere (extinguish, put off, put out, switch off), Scarico improvviso, eruzione del pozzo (blowing, blowing of a well). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

噴き出る (to blow out, to spout out), 吹き消す (to blow out), 吹き出る (to blow out, to spout out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふきでる (to blow out, to spout out), ふきけす (to blow out, to erase, to wipe out). (various references)

Manx

scoltey (analysis, beanfeast; skive, burst, bursting, chop up, cleavage; heavy meal, cleave, cleft, crack, crack; feed, cracking, crevasse, disunion, fission, fissure, fracture, gutting, hew, rend, scission, slit, slitting, sliver, slot, split, tuck in; gut; fault, vent, venting), mooghey (blank off, blot out, choking, damp, drown, dull, expire, extinction, extinguish, gulp back, hold back, hush up, jam, quench, shut off, stamp out, stifle, suppress, switch off, turn off), lheie (assimilation, blowing, digest, disappear, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, fuse, liquefaction, liquefy; digestion, melting, smelt, smelting, soften), folmaghey (clear out, deflate, deflation, deplenish, depletion, discharge, drain, drink up, empty, evacuation, hollow, unburden, vacate, void). (various references)

Pig Latin

owblay outay.(various references)

Portuguese

erupção (acne, boil, breaking, burst, explosion, outbreak, outburst), descarga súbita. (various references)

Romanian

stinge prin suflare, se topi (flux, fuse, fuze, melt, smelt), se stinge (break, die, die away, die out, disappear, expire, fade, fail, go, languish, quench), petrecere (amusement, at home, bacchanalia, bout, carnival, carousal, conviviality, diversion, do, entertainment, feast, festival, festivity, fling, frolic, gaiety, game, garden party, jamboree, jollity, junket, merry making, party, spree), petrecanie, panã de cauciuc la automobil, exploda (explode), chiolhan (booze, spree), chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish). (various references)

Russian 

тушить (braise, put out, quench, snuff out, stew, stews, turn out), задуть, задувать;тушить (blowout), задувать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izduvati. (various references)

Spanish

brote eruptivo (blowing, blowing of a well), vaciar (empty), romperse con (smash, snap, tear), reventar (blow up, break, burst), escape repentino, erupción (eruption, outbreak, rash), echar (throw), apagarse (burn out, dim, fade, fade away, fade out, fizzle out, go out), apagar (put out, extinguish). (various references)

Swedish

blåsa ut, eruption (eruption). (various references)

Turkish

patlamak (blow, blow up, break, burst, crack, detonate, erupt, explode, fulminate, go off, go pop, go up, knock back, let fly, plonk, plunk, pop, puncture, set back, snap, spring), patlama (bang, blowup, boom, burst, burst up, crack, detonating, detonation, eruption, explosion, fireworks, fulminating, fulmination, outburst, plosion, puncture, simmer), püskürmek (eructate, erupt, spout), kudurma (explosion, frenzy, furor, furore, rage, rampancy), hava kaçırma, eğlence (amusement, fun), dinmek (cease, lay, leave off, let up, pass, pass off, quiet down, quieten), cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, racket, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), atmak (throw), alem (bat, bender, binge, blast, blind, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, class of beings, condition, creation, entertainment, jollification, junket, kingdom, nature, orgy, party, potation, potations, razzle-dazzle, realm, revel, revelry, riot, rollicking time, spree, state, universe, whoopee, world), üfleyip söndürmek (puff out), üflemek (blow, breathe upon, insufflate, puff, puff out, whiff, whiffle), öfkelenme (blast, blaze). (various references)

Ukrainian

роздуватися (balloon, bloat, bulge, distend, plump), галасливі розваги, задувати (puff out), прочищати (blow), проколота шина. (various references)

efflo. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blowout.

-3 letters: blot, blow, bolo, bolt, boot, bout, bowl, lobo, loot, lout, obol, tolu, tool, wool.

-4 letters: boo, bot, bow, but, lob, loo, lot, low, oot, out, owl, too, tow, tub, two, woo, wot.

-5 letters: bo, lo, ow, to, ut, wo.

+1 letter: blowouts.

+4 letters: counterblow.

+5 letters: counterblows.