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BLOW AWAY

Specialty Definition: BLOW AWAY

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Computing

Blow away vt. To remove (files and directories) from permanent storage, generally by accident. "He reformatted the wrong partition and blew away last night's netnews." Oppose nuke. Source: Jargon File.

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Crosswords: BLOW AWAY

English words defined with "BLOW AWAY": Overblow. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BLOW AWAY": ARC CUTTER, arc-air operatorburn-out-scarfing operator. (references)

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Modern Usage: BLOW AWAY

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Because we don't know if they're a bunch of maniacs over there with Uzis waiting to blow away the first person to come to the door. (Something Wilder; writing credit: Ralph Farquhar; Gary Hardwick)

Lyrics

Blow away dandelion, blow away dandelion (DANDELION; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Bring your dandelions to blow away (DANDELION; performing artist: The Rolling Stones)

Song Titles

Blow Away (performing artist: George Harrison)

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Commercial Usage: BLOW AWAY

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Books

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Expression: BLOW AWAY

Expression using "BLOW AWAY": blow away the cobwebs. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLOW AWAY

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

blow away

5
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Modern Translation: BLOW AWAY

Language Translations for "BLOW AWAY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkatërroj (bash up, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

разпръсвам (diffuse, strew), отвявам (blow, blow off, fan, winnow), отнасям (carry away, number, relate, snatch, subsume, take away, take off, walk away with, wash away, whiffle, whip off). (various references)

   

Czech

  

odfouknout (whiff aside). (various references)

   

German

  

wegfliegen (blow off), wegblasen (blow off, to blow off), verwehen (be carried away, be obliterated, cover over, drift away, obliterate, to blow away), in die pfanne hauen (shellac), abknallen (bump off, pick off, shoot down, zap). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διώχνω φυσώντασ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

eloszlat (disperse, lull, to dispel, to disperse, to dissipate, to dissolve), elfúj (be blown away, blow out, puff away, to blow off, to blow out, to puff out, to whiff). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sheidey ersooyl (blow off), sheebey ersooyl. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owblay awayay

   

Romanian

  

se împrãştia (break, break up, disband, dissipate, lift, scatter, shrink away, spill, thin), duce (bear, bring, carry, convey, deliver, die, drive, duke, fare, fool, go, guide, kid, lead, live, outsmart, palm off, prosecute, pull, push, support, take, tend, wage, wear). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сдувать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oduvati (blow off, overblow). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ser llevado, ser arrancado, llevarse (bear away, bear off, bring away, carry away, carry off, drive away, get, take away, take off, walk away, walk off, wash, win), hacer desaparecer (disappear, wash off), arrastrar (creep, drag, draw, grovel, haul, haulage, heave, lay, pull, pull along, schlep, scrape, scuff, tow, trail, trundle, tug, wash down), arrancar (abstract, draw, draw out, extort, extract, grub up, pick, pluck, pluck off, prise off, prize off, pull, pull away, pull off, pull out, pull up, put on, rip off, rip out, root up, start, start running, switch on, take away, tear, tear away, tear down, tear off, tear out, tear up, turn on, weed, win, wrest, wring). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

uçurmak (blow, fly, let fly, sail, whip off), sürüklemek (drag, drag along, drift, eat at, eat away, Hale, incline, lug, make leeway, pluck, schlep, schlepp, sweep, sweep before one, trail, train, tug, waft, wash away, wash off). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

зносити (abide, demolish, knock down, sit down under, take down, tear down, throw down, unbuild, undergo, weather). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: BLOW AWAY

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

exsuflans, exsuflastis, exsuflavi. (various references)

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Misspellings: BLOW AWAY

Misspellings

"BLOW AWAY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blowaway. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BLOW AWAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-o-w-w-y"

-3 letters: alway, blowy, boyla, bylaw.

-4 letters: ably, alba, alow, away, awol, baal, bawl, blaw, blow, bola, bowl, waly, wawl, yawl, yowl.

-5 letters: aal, aba, abo, aby, ala, alb, awa, awl, baa, bal, bay, boa, bow, boy, lab, law, lay, lob, low, owl, wab, waw, way, wow, yaw, yob, yow.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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