blow

blow
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noun
1 hard knock that hits sb/sth
ADJECTIVE
hard, heavy, nasty, painful, powerful, severe, sharp, stinging, violent
deadly, fatal, final, mortal
physical
glancing, light

Jack caught him a glancing blow on the jaw.

single

He killed the man with a single blow of the hammer.

… OF BLOWS
flurry
VERB + BLOW
get, receive, suffer, take

He suffered a severe blow to the head.

catch sb, deal sb, deliver, give sb, land, rain (down), strike sb

It was the gardener who delivered the fatal blow.

She landed a nasty blow on his nose.

He rained heavy blows on the old woman.

exchange

The demonstrators exchanged blows with the police.

aim

She aimed a blow at Lucy.

avoid, block, deflect, dodge, parry, ward off
feel

He felt a stinging blow across the side of his face.

BLOW + VERB
fall, land

The blow landed on my right shoulder.

knock sb down, over, etc.

The blow knocked him to the ground.

knock sb out
PREPOSITION
blow of

two blows of the hammer

blow on

a nasty blow on the head

blow to

a blow to the victim's chest

PHRASES
come to blows

The children came to blows over the new toy.

the force of the blow

The force of the blow knocked him out.

2 sudden shock/disappointment
ADJECTIVE
big, great, huge, major, serious, severe, terrible
bitter, crippling, cruel, crushing, devastating, knockout
double
decisive, mortal

a mortal blow to local industry

body
VERB + BLOW
deal (sb/sth), deliver, strike

His defeat dealt a crushing blow to the party.

receive, suffer
cushion, soften

to soften the blow of tax increases

come as

The news came as a bitter blow to the staff.

BLOW + VERB
come, fall

The blow came at a meeting yesterday.

PREPOSITION
blow for

A tax on books would be a body blow for education.

blow to

Her decision to leave home was a terrible blow to her parents.

PHRASES
a bit of a blow (esp. BrE)
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verb
1 of wind/air, etc.
ADVERB
hard, strongly
gently
PREPOSITION
from

a gale blowing from the west

off

The wind blew the papers off the table.

PHRASES
blow sth off course

The ship was blown off course in the storm.

see which way the wind is blowing (figurative)

They won't commit themselves until they see which way the wind is blowing.

2 send air out of your mouth
ADVERB
hard
softly
PREPOSITION
on

He blew on his soup to cool it.

Blow is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑air, ↑blast, ↑blizzard, ↑breeze, ↑curtain, ↑draught, ↑dust, ↑fan, ↑fuse, ↑gale, ↑hurricane, ↑leaf, ↑sand, ↑tyre, ↑whale, ↑whistle, ↑wind
Blow is used with these nouns as the object: ↑air, ↑bang, ↑blizzard, ↑bubble, ↑budget, ↑chance, ↑cover, ↑dust, ↑fuse, ↑glass, ↑hole, ↑horn, ↑kiss, ↑knee, ↑mind, ↑nose, ↑smoke, ↑snow, ↑trumpet, ↑tyre, ↑whistle

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