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Blew

blu
A memorial stone dedicated to Jan Carel Josephus van Speijk, the Dutch gunboat commander. who blew himself up in Antwerp in 1831 during the Belgian uprising, together with his boat and crew. The plaque belongs to father and son Sigault, commissioned by architect Jan de Greef.
A memorial stone dedicated to Jan Carel Josephus van Speijk, the Dutch gunboat commander. who blew himself up in Antwerp in 1831 during the Belgian uprising, together with his boat and crew. The plaque belongs to father and son Sigault, commissioned by architect Jan de Greef.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Sometime around 1050 some English boys looking for a diversion blew up an old cow bladder and began to kick it around. The new game would go on to be called soccer.
  1. blew
    Preterit of blow, blow.
  2. blew
    See blue.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (pa.t) Blew
    blōō of Blow.
Quotations
Mickey Mantle
I had it all and blew it.
Mickey Mantle
Usage in the news

Plenty of A&M's followers are understandably still wallowing today after the Aggies' blew their third double-digit halftime lead this season, this time to a team that wasn't in the top 25 and entered Kyle with a 1-3 Big 12 record. blog.mysanantonio.com

For years the wind blew freely through empty concrete silos and flats in the Western Plains. feedandgrain.com

You thought you could navigate summer's hottest trends, but you took a wrong turn at the leopard-print caftans, blew right past the dip-dyed hair and now, you're just circling the same color block. honolulumagazine.com

The weather was just right to freeze the melt water coming off a neighbor's roof as the wind blew it sideways. klewtv.com

That's the way it has been across the Northeast, as crews clean, replace and fix the equipment needed to get the lights back on for millions of customers who lost power when Superstorm Sandy blew through. courierpostonline.com

CHICAGO — Gray Davis blew into the windy city this Monday, unheralded, to talk to the union presidents gathered here for the AFL-CIO's summertime executive-council meeting and to put the touch on them for 10 million bucks. laweekly.com

Stifling Greenwich in the third quarter, the Hoosick Falls Central School girls basketball team blew open a seven-point game to cruise to a 53-29 victory in Wasaren League action on Tuesday night. benningtonbanner.com

TRAVERSE CITY — A man who robbed a local gas station is in jail after the woman who planned the heist blew the whistle on him, police said. record-eagle.com

He and Mildred had been married for nearly 70 years after they'd met in an aerial rendezvous above the Tuskegee Airmen training field where they waved and blew kisses at each other during their unusual courtship. montgomeryadvertiser.com

Despite a storm with winds that eventually blew over the chuppah, an outdoor wedding at the Baltimore Museum of Art was nothing short of magical. baltimoresun.com

Mack leads Rutgers which almost blew a 22-point lead, to an 81-73 win over Iona at MSG. foxnews.com

Blew a lead and lost to the Rockets, after which Houston radio announcer Craig Ackerman said, "The Lakers have just pooped their big-boy pants". redlandsdailyfacts.com

But the fierce hit blew off the roof and cracked the facade of his home just north of Gaza City. kvia.com

A section of the roof blew off an apartment building in Waltham. thebostonchannel.com

SEATTLE — People openly lit joints under the Space Needle and on Seattle's sidewalks — then blew the smoke at TV news cameras. therepublic.com

Usage in scientific papers

Hence, in total, they blew a non negligible mass back to the ICM.
Feedback Heating with Slow Jets in Cooling Flow Clusters

As to ”almost”, the list lacks 14 out of 318 six element posets which due to their high symmetry blew up F M3(P , ≤) too much.
Lattices freely generated by posets within a variety. Part II: Finitely generated varieties

As components sunk into this singular locus, he recursively blew it up to prevent this from happening.
GW Invariants Relative Normal Crossings Divisors

These physicists, observing the disintegrations of matter produced by corpuscles of the cosmic radiation, witnessed sometimes real explosions in which a nucleus blew up in some twenty corpuscles pro jected outwards like bullets in a shrapnel.
Enrico Fermi's view of identical particles

Since it is known that the Orion association blew just such a superbubble (SB) from the winds and explosions of massive stars in subgroup Ia (e.g.
Light Element Abundance Patterns in the Orion Association: I) HST Observations of Boron in G-dwarfs

Usage in literature

He blew a shrill blast on his whistle. "Lady Bountiful" by George A. Birmingham

Others blew in and blew out again, creating a little disturbance and drifting west. "Roosevelt in the Bad Lands" by Hermann Hagedorn

The child went and blew into it, and the boy became stark-blind. "The Science of Fairy Tales" by Edwin Sidney Hartland

One-Eye glowed under the compliment, and went various shades of red, and blew smoke from his cigar furiously. "The Rich Little Poor Boy" by Eleanor Gates

As a fair breeze blew out of the harbour, Murray was in a hurry to be off. "The Three Commanders" by W.H.G. Kingston

A light breeze blew through the foliage, and sang a pleasant song as it blew. "The Eyes of the Woods" by Joseph A. Altsheler

After breakfast a horn blew. "Viking Tales" by Jennie Hall

For four days the wind blew strongly from the south-west and the blockaded fleet waited for better weather. "Famous Sea Fights" by John Richard Hale

You should see the way he blew the smoke into the onlookers' faces! "Nobody's Boy" by Hector Malot

Grayson ceased, the engine blew the starting signal, the candidate and the correspondent swung aboard, and off they went. "The Candidate" by Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Usage in poetry
I blew out the light,
I tip-toed the floor,
And raised both hands
In prayer to the door.
The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?
Ere the earliest peep of morn
Blew King Olaf's bugle-horn;
And forever sundered ride
Bridegroom and bride!
Yes - when the bugle blew
Weary and worn and few,
They did what they were asked to do
Whene'er the bugle blew
He seized his clarion straight,
And blew thereat, until
A warden oped the gate.
"Oh, what might be your will?"
No highwayman's trot blew the night-wind
To me so life-weary,
But only the creak of the gibbets
Or wagoners' jee.