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BLOWN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Breathing laboriously or convulsively
Synonyms:
blown; pursy; short-winded; winded
Classified under:
Similar:
breathless; dyspneal; dyspneic; dyspnoeal; dyspnoeic (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
Example:
blown soil mounded on the window sill
Classified under:
Similar:
moving (in motion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past participle of the verb blow
Context examples:
Blown into space with the rising plume emitted through those fractures, the ice grains were then analyzed by Cassini's CDA.
(New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains, NASA)
I observed, here and there, many in the habit of servants, with a blown bladder, fastened like a flail to the end of a stick, which they carried in their hands.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Since the Rocknest sample is a combination of dust blown in from distant regions on Mars and more locally sourced materials, the nitrates are likely to be widespread across Mars.
(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)
The number of people who develop blood antibodies to the red meat allergen without having full-blown symptoms is much higher — as much as 20 percent of the population in some areas, the researchers say.
(Researchers have found a link between allergen in red meat and heart disease, National Institutes of Health)
In that case the overcoat was not blown against the furze-bush, but placed there.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air.
(Dust, NCI Thesaurus)
These giant bubbles of plasma, or electrified gas, pinch off from the end of a planet's magnetotail - the part of its magnetic field blown back by the Sun like a windsock.
(The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, NASA)
I sought the orchard, driven to its shelter by the wind, which all day had blown strong and full from the south, without, however, bringing a speck of rain.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Beth's bird began to chirp again, and a half-blown rose was discovered on Amy's bush in the window.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
For my part, I think the less that is said about such things, the better, the sooner 'tis blown over and forgot. And what does talking ever do you know?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
