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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 operator ♦ burn-out-scarfing operator. (references) |
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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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Expression using "BLOW AWAY": blow away the cobwebs. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blow away | 5 |
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| 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 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) сдувать. (various references) oduvati (blow off, overblow). (various references) 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) 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) зносити (abide, demolish, knock down, sit down under, take down, tear down, throw down, unbuild, undergo, weather). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exsuflans, exsuflastis, exsuflavi. (various references) |
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"BLOW AWAY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blowaway. (additional references) | |
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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. | |
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