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the electric heater. 6 blow hot and cold. vacillate, hesitate,
dither, Colloq shilly-shally: The sales manager has been
blowing hot and cold over my proposal for a month now. 7 blow
out. a extinguish: I blew out all the candles in one breath.
The match blew out in the wind. b explode, burst: One of my
tyres blew out on the way over here. c short-circuit, burn out:
The lights blew out during the storm. 8 blow up. a become
furious or angry or enraged, flare up, lose one's temper, Slang
blow one's top or US also stack, flip one's lid: She really
blew up when I said I was going to the pub. b explode, burst,
shatter, Colloq bust; detonate, dynamite, destroy, blast: The
bridge blew up with a roar. Demolition experts will blow up the
dam. c enlarge, inflate, embroider, magnify, expand, exaggerate,
overstate: The tabloid press has blown up the story out of all
proportion. d enlarge, magnify, amplify, expand, increase: Can
you blow up just this corner of the photograph? e inflate;
distend, swell: We were busy blowing up balloons for the party.
--n. 9 gale, storm, tempest, whirlwind, tornado, cyclone,
hurricane, typhoon, north-easter, nor'easter: We can expect a
big blow tonight - winds of gale force, they say.
blowý n. 1 stroke, punch, clout, whack, hit, knock, thump, thwack,
Colloq wallop: He was felled by a blow to the chin in the
fourth round. 2 shock, surprise, bombshell, jolt, bolt from the
blue, revelation: It came as a blow to learn that she was
leaving in a month.
blue
adj. 1 depressed, low-spirited, dispirited, sad, dismal, down,
down in the mouth, gloomy, unhappy, glum, downcast, crestfallen,
chap-fallen, dejected, melancholy, despondent, downhearted,
morose: I've been feeling blue since Kathleen left me. 2
obscene, vulgar, indecent, titillating, pornographic, dirty,
filthy, lewd, smutty, risqu‚, bawdy, sexy, X, X-rated, 18, US
XXX; indelicate, suggestive, off colour, erotic, coarse,
offensive, improper: There's a place nearby that shows blue
movies.
bluff° v. 1 deceive, hoodwink, dupe, mislead, delude, trick, cozen,
fool, Colloq bamboozle: I bluffed him into believing that I
held four aces. 2 pretend, feign, bluster, fool, Colloq kid;
Slang bullshit: She became frightened, unaware that I was only
bluffing.