blown

English

Etymology

From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan.

Morphologically blow +‎ -n.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bləʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bloʊn/

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• Rhymes: -əʊn

Adjective

blown (not comparable)

1. Distended, swollen, or inflated.

   Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.

2. Panting and out of breath.
3. (of glass) Formed by blowing.
4. Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
5. (obsolete) Stale; worthless.
   • 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [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.

6. Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
7. (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
8. Having failed.

   a blown head gasket

   • 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:

     Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.

Derived terms

• endblown
• full-blown
• sideblown

Translations

distended, swollen or inflated

• Bulgarian: подут (bg) (podut), издут (bg) (izdut)

• German: aufgebläht (de)

panting and out of breath

• Bulgarian: , задъхан (bg) (zadǎhan)

(glass) formed by blowing

• Bulgarian: , издухан (bg) (izduhan)

Verb

blown

1. past participle of blow

Derived terms

• blown flap