blown

English

Etymology

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

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, [...] In Four Volumes, 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.

Derived terms

• endblown
• full-blown
• sideblown

Translations

distended, swollen or inflated

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

• German: aufgebläht

panting and out of breath

• Bulgarian: , задъхан (bg) (zadǎhan)

(glass) formed by blowing

• Bulgarian: , издухан (bg) (izduhan)

Verb

blown

1. past participle of blow