v
(transitive) To smother or suffocate someone.
v
(finance, intransitive) To lose money.
v
(transitive, figuratively, informal) To bleed white.
v
(literally) To drain someone of blood entirely.
n
Alternative spelling of brain dump [(slang) The transfer of a large quantity of information or knowledge from one person to another, as for example when one skilled employee is to replace another.]
v
(transitive) To use up a resource in a nonproductive manner.
v
(idiomatic) To make (someone) unavailable for work involving exposure to ionizing radiation by employing (the person) in such work until the person's accumulated exposure reaches the maximum permitted for an administrative period, typically a year.
n
The point at which emotional self-control is lost.
v
(transitive) To cause to dry up or wither.
v
(figuratively) To collapse catastrophically; to become devastated or completely destroyed.
v
To worry about unfortunate events which have already happened and which cannot be changed.
v
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
n
(obsolete) A blowing apart or away.
n
Something which is limp or sagging.
v
(idiomatic) To go away; to disappear.
n
Alternative form of debacle. [An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.]
n
(archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
n
The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out.
adj
(phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
v
(obsolete) To exorcise or renounce by blowing.
v
(intransitive, dated) To grow irritated or angry.
v
(military, of a nuclear weapon) To fail to generate the expected yield when exploded during testing.
v
(intransitive, informal) To flake or be flaky: to prove unreliable; to abandon or desert.
n
(figuratively) The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
v
(intransitive, UK, Australia) To putrefy or become inedible, or to become unusable in any way.
v
(UK, Australia) Cease to boil when heat is no longer applied.
n
(psychology) A person who directs their anger inward.
v
(transitive) To enlarge an object by pushing air (or a gas) into it; to raise or expand abnormally
v
(transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
v
(Scotland, obsolete) Of a pump: to dry up; to yield no water.
v
(of a solid or liquid) To emit gases, especially noxious ones.
n
The bleeding or release of air from a system.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To blow over; pass over; pass away.
n
(obsolete) The act of perflating, or blowing through.
v
(intransitive) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress.
v
(transitive, engineering) To blow (glass, plastics, etc.) in advance.
v
(intransitive, informal) To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
v
(transitive, physics) To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
v
(intransitive) To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
v
(informal, intransitive) To become exhausted.
v
(figuratively) To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To exhaust the vitality of.
v
(transitive) Of an animal: to draw back or retract (a body part) into the body, such as claws into a paw.
v
(intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
n
An amount of material involved in a sinking.
v
(transitive) To cause to hang down or droop; to depress.
v
(intransitive) To slouch or droop.
v
(transitive) To extinguish or deaden, as fire, by covering, overlaying, or otherwise excluding the air.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To ruin, destroy.
v
Alternative form of stop and smell the roses [(idiomatic) To relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life.]
n
Obsolete form of strewing. [The act of scattering or spreading.]
v
(transitive, figuratively, in the passive) To engulf or overwhelm.
v
(transitive, archaic) inflate; blow up
v
(ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
v
(intransitive) To droop; to sag.
v
(figuratively) To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
v
To clean or tidy, especially a place that is very messy.
v
(transitive) To fail to blow with sufficient force or energy
v
To openly express pent-up anger, often on an unrelated matter or person.
v
To erode gradually and progressively.
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