adj
(slang, childish or humorous) Involving or reminiscent of an explosion or explosions.
n
Pronunciation spelling of explosion. [A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.)]
adj
Blasting, making a loud noise.
adj
(dated, postpositive) Blowing or being blown; windy.
adj
In a bursting condition.
v
(transitive, archaic) To blast completely; wither up.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To blow upon; blow around or about; proclaim or spread about (word, news, fame, etc.)
v
(transitive) To pour out with a ladle; ladle out.
v
(transitive) To singe about or all over.
v
(transitive) To swarm over; to envelop in a swarm.
v
(intransitive) To well up.
adj
Pronunciation spelling of blasted. [Subjected to an explosion.]
v
(transitive) To curse; to damn.
v
(transitive) To destroy by blasting with explosives.
v
(transitive) to be produced as loud music or noise
n
Anything that, or anyone who blasts.
n
(archaic) A sudden strike or injury; a pernicious thing.
n
The destructive wave of pressure caused by an explosion.
adj
(obsolete) Affected by blasts; gusty.
v
(transitive) To set ablaze
v
To form, or cause the formation of, blebs.
v
(transitive) To tap off high-pressure gas (usually air) from a system that produces high-pressure gas primarily for another purpose.
v
(transitive, figuratively, informal) To cause someone hardship by cutting all supplies off.
v
(transitive) To quench; extinguish; put out (a fire, flame, etc.).
v
(informal) To explode as the result of a BLEVE
v
(intransitive) To break out in blisters.
n
(countable, figuratively) A swift and overwhelming attack or effort.
n
(obsolete) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
v
(intransitive, informal) To be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out.
v
(figuratively) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
v
(informal) To lose one's temper; to become enraged.
v
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, gasket. To cause the seal made by a gasket to fail.
v
(idiomatic) To destroy the integrity or cohesion of.
v
(intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
v
(transitive) To knock over with an air current, most often wind.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To behave inconsistently; to vacillate or to waver, as between extremes of opinion or emotion.
v
(transitive) To remove something by blowing it.
v
(transitive, figuratively, often in the passive) To affect negatively, often in an unexpected manner; to derail.
v
(idiomatic) To vent; to talk or take action (especially in a ranting or unrestrained way) so as to relieve stress.
v
Alternative form of blow one's top [(slang, figuratively) To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper.]
v
(slang, figuratively) To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper.
v
(transitive) To extinguish something, especially a flame, especially by means of a strong current of air or another gas.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.
v
(nautical) To rapidly destroy (a vessel) with overwhelming weapons fire.
v
To be knocked down by wind.
v
(informal) To destroy totally by explosion.
v
(idiomatic) To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.
v
(figuratively) To excite passion.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To be much more important or impressive than.
v
(idiomatic, informal) To exit or remove oneself from a less than exciting location or environment.
v
(idiomatic, informal) To leave a place, often with anger or anticipation of going somewhere more exciting.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To totally destroy (something); to annihilate or wipe out (something).
v
(dated) Of the wind: to blow with great violence.
v
(intransitive) To explode or be destroyed by explosion.
v
(informal, dated) To inform against.
v
Synonym of go with the flow
v
To dry with a hair dryer
n
Alternative spelling of blowoff [Something that is blown off.]
n
Alternative spelling of blowout [A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.]
n
(informal) An explosion (physical or emotional).
n
(forestry) Uprooting, overtopping, or bole breakage of trees by the wind; windthrow and windsnap.
v
Obsolete spelling of blow [(intransitive) To produce an air current.]
adv
Accompanied by blowing.
n
Something that is blown off.
n
A sudden puncturing of a pneumatic tyre/tire.
n
(obsolete) A child's game of blowing small fragments of wood through a tube.
n
An explosion, or violent outburst
v
(transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To fail dismally.
v
(transitive, slang) To destroy completely or kill with explosives.
adj
Having been destroyed, or turned to rubble, with explosives.
v
(transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
adj
(West Midlands) bursting
v
(military, informal) To bomb a target that has already been severely bombed, so that little further damage is possible.
v
(archaic) simple past tense of burst
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) Of a school, to close for the holidays at the end of term.
adj
(UK, dialect, obsolete, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire) burst
v
Obsolete form of burst. [(intransitive) To break from internal pressure.]
v
(transitive or intransitive) To erupt or to push out, as or in the manner of a bud
n
An act of demolition with a bulldozer.
v
(transitive, intransitive, oil) To dispose of (unusable explosive natural gas from an oil well) by burning it as it emerges from the well.
v
(idiomatic, intransitive, of a vehicle) To accelerate so rapidly from standstill that it leaves a mark of burnt rubber on the road from the tire.
v
(intransitive) To break from internal pressure.
v
(figuratively) To become so furious that one loses control.
v
(idiomatic) to enter suddenly and unexpectedly
v
(intransitive) To speak emotionally or suddenly
v
(dated, colloquial) To explode.
adj
Burst; broken; ruptured.
n
One who, or that which, bursts or causes to burst.
adv
So as to burst; as if bursting.
adj
Taking place in bursts.
adj
(computer science) Occurring in abrupt bursts, especially of information
v
Alternative form of blow a gasket [(informal) To become very angry or upset.]
v
(intransitive, figuratively) To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
v
(by extension) To approach a situation in a state of anger and tension.
v
(transitive) To devastate by heavy bombing.
v
(intransitive) To explode; to blow up. Specifically, to combust supersonically via shock compression.
n
(chemistry) An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.
v
(archaic) To explode, or cause to explode; to burn with an explosion; to detonate.
v
(intransitive) To burst with a loud report; to explode.
v
(figuratively) To have an injurious effect; to strike home, as a barb or insult.
v
To blow up with dynamite or other high explosive.
n
A sudden emotional outburst.
n
(euphemistic, humorous) destructive explosion.
adj
That emerges, or bursts through; breaking forth.
v
(intransitive) To burst forth; to break out.
n
A sudden release of pressure or tension.
v
(obsolete) To spit out; to discharge from the throat by hawking and spitting.
adj
Having been subjected to an explosion; blown up.
adj
(slang) Explosive; tending to explode.
adv
(sometimes figuratively) So as to cause an explosion; explosively.
n
(chiefly fiction) Any material that explodes extremely easily.
adj
(colloquial) Full of explosions.
adj
(slang) Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
adj
(obsolete) Arising; coming to light.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To swing about or flare (as a candle).
n
A blight affecting plants, giving them a scorched appearance (as if burnt by fire).
n
A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
v
(figuratively) To fail, usually spectacularly.
v
(intransitive, idiomatic) To suddenly become extremely angry.
v
(intransitive) To become more intense suddenly.
n
A sudden outbreak, outburst or eruption (originally of flame, but now used more generally of any violent activity or emotion).
n
Alternative spelling of flare-up [A sudden outbreak, outburst or eruption (originally of flame, but now used more generally of any violent activity or emotion).]
v
(transitive) To scatter.
adj
Alternative spelling of flyblown [contaminated with flyblows]
v
(transitive, by extension) To taint or contaminate.
v
(intransitive) To burst asunder; break; shatter.
adj
Alternative form of freeblown [(glassblowing) Shaped without a mold.]
v
(chiefly US, intransitive, slang) To be executed by the electric chair.
v
(transitive, now rare) To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
v
(transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.
v
(transitive, slang) To inflate (someone's ego).
v
(transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
v
(Internet slang, humorous) To go out of control; to increase or thrive despite opposition.
v
(intransitive) To explode metaphorically; to become very angry.
v
(informal) Of a car or its engine: to perform either very well or not at all.
v
(euphemistic, dated) Go to hell.
adv
(idiomatic) With much force or bravado.
v
(of a small flame) To flicker as if about to be extinguished.
adj
(of a gun) Not fully cocked
v
(transitive) To cause to collapse or burst inward violently.
n
(phonetics) An implosive sound.
v
(intransitive) To blow in.
adj
(obsolete) blown in or into
n
(ecology) An abrupt increase of an animal population.
n
(colloquial) A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
v
(rare, figuratively, informal) To explode.
v
(informal, rare) Synonym of explode
v
To cause the air to become filled with dust from a surface.
v
(figuratively) To make (someone or something) bleed, in a general sense; to cut; to kill.
v
Alternative form of blow off steam [(idiomatic) To vent; to talk or take action (especially in a ranting or unrestrained way) so as to relieve stress.]
v
(figuratively) To stir people up; to cause anger or excitement.
v
Alternative form of blow up the tote [(horse racing, of a horse) To win a race as a long shot.]
n
(physics, astronomy) An outburst of energy following a merger of two stars.
v
(transitive) To damage (a vehicle or ship) with a mine (an explosive device).
v
To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
v
(transitive) To blow out (all senses)
adj
(obsolete, poetic) Inflated with wind.
v
(intransitive) To burst out or break forth.
n
A pouring out; an outburst.
v
(transitive) To surpass in spitting; to spit more or further than.
v
(transitive) To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
n
(rare) An excessively intense burst; a superburst.
v
(intransitive) To flow over the edge of a container.
v
(transitive, archaic, poetic) To flood or inundate.
v
(intransitive) Of a body of water: to undergo a limnic eruption, where dissolved gas suddenly erupts from the depths.
n
A random or sudden outburst (of activity).
v
(dated) To blow through (as of wind).
v
(intransitive, of wind, etc.) To begin to blow more vigorously.
v
(computer graphics, animation, transitive) To generate a playblast render of.
v
(idiomatic) To become explosively angry.
v
(transitive, rare) To cause to bulge outward.
v
To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
n
(engineering, euphemistic) An explosion or breakup of a vehicle, usually an airplane or a rocket.
v
(transitive) To destroy; to strike out of existence; to obliterate.
v
(transitive) To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst
n
(colloquial) skin and bone injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces
v
(transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
n
A sudden, violent collapse of rock under stress, especially in a mine
v
(transitive, of a fluid, especially a liquid) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
n
A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
n
A burst, split, or break.
adj
Abounding or covered with rushes.
n
The act of breaking into a safe using explosives.
v
(transitive) To be dispersed upon.
v
(intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
v
(intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
n
A person who, or thing that shatters something.
v
(obsolete, transitive) To pour forth, give off, impart.
adj
(obsolete) planet-struck; blasted.
v
(transitive, dialectal) To put out, extinguish (a fire).
v
(transitive, obsolete, dialectal) To snuff a candle.
v
(informal) Synonym of spike a temperature
v
(of eyes) To flash and reveal strong emotion.
v
(informal, often imperative) To overcome reluctance to say something particular or to speak in general.
n
(video games) Damage caused by a nearby explosion, affecting creatures within a certain radius.
v
(figuratively, obsolete) To gush, spurt, or flow, particularly in the manner of blood.
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To catch fire; flame up.
n
A sudden brief burst of, or increase in, speed, effort, activity, emotion or development.
n
The sudden fracturing of a rock face (especially in a mine) due to increased pressure
adj
Producing a superburst.
n
(slang) A success; something excellent.
v
To produce something with incredible power.
v
Alternative form of toburst [(transitive, obsolete) To burst or break in pieces.]
v
(intransitive, obsolete) To burst apart; break in pieces.
v
(obsolete) To spring or fly apart; burst.
n
(psychology) An event, experience or other stimulus that initiates a traumatic memory or a strong reaction in a person.
v
(transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up.
n
A breaking upward or bursting forth; an upburst.
n
That which gushes upward.
v
(poetic, archaic, intransitive) To send up a noise like thunder.
v
(rare) To burst forth like an eruption.
v
to erupt; to burst forth
v
(US, MLE, MTE, slang) To kill or seriously injure.
n
A sudden rush of air or gas due to the collapse of a void, especially in mining.
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