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upblow

verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To inflate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, transitive

Examples

  • 1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,” [...] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde [...]

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2

verb

Meaning 2

To explode, blow up.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, transitive

Examples

  • 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen, Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing.

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3

verb

Meaning 3

To blow in an upward direction.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: ambitransitive, archaic

Examples

  • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28, The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew;
  • 1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105, A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.

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History

Etymology

From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow.

Across languages

Translations

2 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Dutch: opblazen — inflate
  • German: aufblasen — inflate