blown
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
blown (not comparable)
- distended, swollen or inflated
- Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
- panting and out of breath
- (of glass) Formed by blowing
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- (obsolete) stale; worthless
- 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, [...] In Four Volumes, volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: Printed [by James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], OCLC 230697985 ↗, page 33 ↗:
- [T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- German: aufgebläht
- past participle of blow#English|blow
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