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- [bloh in]
- /bloʊ ɪn/
- /bləʊ ɪn/
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- [bloh in]
- /bloʊ ɪn/
Definitions of blow in words
- verb blow in to arrive or enter suddenly 3
- noun blow in an unwelcome newcomer or stranger 3
- noun blow in to arrive 3
- adjective blow in (of a piece of advertising) inserted in but not attached to a magazine or newspaper: blow-in cards. 1
- verb without object blow in (of the wind or air) to be in motion. 1
- verb without object blow in to move along, carried by or as by the wind: Dust seemed to blow through every crack in the house. 1
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Origin of blow in
First appearance:
before 1000 One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English blowen (v.), Old English blāwan; cognate with Latin flāre to blow
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Parts of speech for Blow in
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adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
blow in popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 53% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
blow in usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for blow in
noun blow in
- outsider — a person not belonging to a particular group, set, party, etc.: Society often regards the artist as an outsider.
- stranger — French L'Étranger. a novel (1942) by Albert Camus.
- visitor — a person who visits, as for reasons of friendship, business, duty, travel, or the like.
- refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
- foreigner — a person not native to or naturalized in the country or jurisdiction under consideration; alien.
verb blow in
- materialize — to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
- develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- come out — When a new product such as a book or CD comes out, it becomes available to the public.
- surface — the outer face, outside, or exterior boundary of a thing; outermost or uppermost layer or area.
Antonyms for blow in
noun blow in
- local — low-cal.
- native — being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one's native land.
- citizen — Someone who is a citizen of a particular country is legally accepted as belonging to that country.
- countryman — Your countrymen are people from your own country.
- national — of, relating to, or maintained by a nation as an organized whole or independent political unit: national affairs.
verb blow in
- disappear — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
- conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
- hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
- abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
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