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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The act of one who blows, or that which blows.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
present participle and gerund of blow
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
processing that involves blowing a gas
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: processing
Narrower terms: insufflation
History
From Middle English blowynge, blowyng, from Old English blāwung (“blowing”), equivalent to blow + -ing.
From Middle English blowynge, blowende, from Old English blāwende, from Proto-Germanic *blēandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *blēaną (“to blow”), equivalent to blow + -ing.
