Standard Lemma guide

blown

adj · verb · 12 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /bləʊn/
  • Northumbria: /blaːn/
  • US: /bloʊn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -əʊn
  • CMU ARPABET: B L OW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Distended, swollen, or inflated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

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

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bulled, tumid, puffed

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Panting and out of breath.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Formed by blowing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 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

Antonyms: none provided

5

adj

Meaning 5

Stale; worthless.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: good-for-nothing, no good, valueless, bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, worthless, worth nothing, wutless

Antonyms: none provided

6

adj

Meaning 6

Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

adj

Meaning 7

Given a hot rod blower.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: supercharged

Antonyms: none provided

8

adj

Meaning 8

Having failed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • a blown head gasket

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

adj

Meaning 9

Of a vein, ruptured or punctured as a result of an injection or cannula, causing fluid (blood, medication, or saline) to leak into the surrounding tissue.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, not-comparable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

past participle of blow

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, participle, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

adjective satellite

Meaning 11

breathing laboriously or convulsively

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pursy, short-winded, winded

Antonyms: none provided

12

adjective satellite

Meaning 12

being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • blown clouds of dust choked the riders
  • blown soil mounded on the window sill

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

7 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: fryrë — distended, swollen or inflated
  • Albanian: aj — distended, swollen or inflated
  • Bulgarian: подут (podut) — distended, swollen or inflated
  • Bulgarian: издут (izdut) — distended, swollen or inflated
  • German: aufgebläht — distended, swollen or inflated
  • Bulgarian: задъхан (zadǎhan) — panting and out of breath
  • Bulgarian: издухан (izduhan) — (glass) formed by blowing
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