English Explanatory Dictionary

blown

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Distended, swollen, or inflated.
  2. Panting and out of breath.
  3. Formed by blowing.
  4. Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
  5. Stale; worthless.
  6. Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
  7. Given a hot rod blower.
  8. Having failed.
verb
  1. past participle of blow

Pronunciation

/bləʊn/ /blaːn/ /bloʊn/ en-us-blown.ogg

Word forms

blown blowne

Etymology

From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan. Morphologically blow + -n.

Synonyms

bulled tumid puffed blazed reefed spaced-out baked blitzed blown chemically impaired chopped cut drugged drugged-out fuckered up fried gassed geeked high high as a kite hepped up hopped up monged munted trolleyed toasted lifted lit off one's box out of one's box stoned up there wasted whacked zooted zorched good-for-nothing no good valueless bastardly cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish draffy dreckish drecky duffing floccinaucinihilipilificatious for the birds fucking garbagey good-for-naught goodless ineffectual invaluable jabberwocky

Derived words

ale-blown blown flap blown glass blown-in-the-bottle blown-off blown out endblown freeblown full-blown glassblown handblown inblown mindblown mouthblown outblown sideblown unblown windblown
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