Meaning

2 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To trounce; to defeat thoroughly, as at a game or in battle.

  2. To rapidly destroy (a vessel) with overwhelming weapons fire.

More definitions
  • surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The southeasterly wind blew over the water.

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  2. The grenade blew up in the water.

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Translations

4 languages

Forms

blows out of the water, blowing out of the water, blew out of the water, blown out of the water
Base formblow out of the water · to blow out of the water
3rd person singularblows out of the water
Present participleblowing out of the water
Past simpleblew out of the water
Past participleblown out of the water

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyblow out of the water
he, she, itblows out of the water

Past simpleLesson

all personsblew out of the water

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave blown out of the water
he, she, ithas blown out of the water

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill blow out of the water

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
blowA1blowerblowtorch

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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