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blowingverb1present participle of blow to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficultythat horse was really blowing after the race gasping, heaving, hyperventilating, panting, puffing, wheezing choking, gagging, gulping, huffingasphyxiating, smothering, stifling, stranglingsnoring, snufflingexhaling, expiring being out of breath to use up carelesslyeach year he blows his holiday bonus on a trip to Las Vegas dissipating, fiddling away, frittering (away), lavishing, losing, misspending, running through, spending, squandering, throwing away, trifling (away), wasting splurgingconsuming, depleting, exhausting, impoverishing, overspending, shootingindulging, overindulgingdisbursing, expending, laying out playing ducks and drakes with(or making ducks and drakes of) conserving economizing, scrimping, skimpingpreserving, protecting, savinghoarding, laying up to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressurea huge crater was formed when the volcano last blew blowing up, bursting, crumping, detonating, exploding, going off, popping fragmenting, shattering, smashing, splinteringdischarging, firing, shootingballooning, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), mushrooming imploding collapsing, fizzling to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosiveone false move and we would be blown to bits blasting, blowing up, bursting, demolishing, exploding, popping, shattering, smashing dynamitingannihilating, decimating, destroyingruining, wreckingdetonating, dischargingfragmenting, splintering collapsing, imploding to proceed or move quicklythat car blew past us as if we were standing still barreling(or barrelling), belting, blasting, blazing, bolting, bombing(slang), bowling, breezing, bundling, bustling, buzzing, cannonballing, careening, careering, chasing, coursing, cracking (on), dashing, driving, flying, haring, hastening, highballing, hotfooting (it), humping, hurling, hurrying, hurtling, hustling, hying(or hieing), jetting, jumping, motoring, nipping, pelting, racing, ramming, ripping, rocketing, running, rushing, rustling, scooting, scurrying, scuttling, shooting, speeding, stepping, tearing, traveling(or travelling), trotting, whirling, whisking, zipping, zooming beetling, darting, flitting, scampering, scudding, scufflingstampeding, streaking, whizzinggalloping, jogging, sprintingaccelerating, quickening, stepping outcatching up, fast-forwarding, outpacing, outrunning, outstripping, overtakingarrowing, beelining beating it, getting a move on, making tracks, shaking a leg, stepping on it crawling, creeping, poking dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, dragging, hanging (around or out), lagging, lingering, loitering, poking, tarryingambling, lumbering, plodding, sauntering, shuffling, strollingdecelerating, slowing (down or up) to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful wayhe keeps blowing every job interview that comes his way bobbling, boggling, bollixing (up), booting, botching, buggering (up), bumbling, bungling, butchering, dubbing, flubbing, fluffing, foozling, fouling up, fumbling, goofing (up), lousing up, mangling, messing (up), mucking up, muffing, murdering, screwing up blundering, gumming (up), muddling, pifflingblemishing, blighting, damaging, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, mutilating, ruining, spoiling, vitiatingdestroying, wreckingmishandling, mismanaging ameliorating, bettering, enhancing, helping, improving, meliorating, rectifying, refining, reforming, remedyingdoctoring, fixing, patching, reconditioning, renovating, repairing, revamping to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excessanother self-made millionaire blowing about how much he'd achieved boasting, bragging, bulling(slang), crowing, gasconading, swaggering, vaporing, vaunting blustering, haranguing, puffingpridinggushingexulting, glorying, rejoicingbrandishing, displaying, exhibiting, exposing, flaunting, glorifying, parading, showing offmagnifying, maximizing blowing smoke belittling, deprecating, diminishing, discounting, laughing off, minimizing, playing down, pooh-poohing(also poohing), shrugging off, underrating, undervaluingbemoaning, lamenting, mourning, regretting blowingverb2present participle of blowto produce flowerslonging for a grassy field in some far-off land where the wildflowers blow blooming, blossoming, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), efflorescing, flowering, unfolding leafing, leavingbuddingopening drying up, fading, shriveling(or shrivelling), wilting, witheringdropping, dying, expiring, perishing |