BLOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blown mean? 

• BLOWN (adjective)
  The adjective BLOWN has 2 senses:

1. being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor

2. breathing laboriously or convulsively

  Familiarity information: BLOWN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLOWN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor

Context example:

blown soil mounded on the window sill

Similar:

moving (in motion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Breathing laboriously or convulsively

Synonyms:

blown; pursy; short-winded; winded

Similar:

breathless; dyspneal; dyspneic; dyspnoeal; dyspnoeic (not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty)

 Context examples 

The worst of the storm must have blown that night, though little I noticed it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This material was blown out by strong stellar winds and energised by ultraviolet radiation from the hot stellar core left behind, creating a circumstellar nebula of dust and brightly-coloured hot gas.

(The Strange Structures of the Saturn Nebula, ESO)

Lady Catherine had been rendered so exceedingly angry by the contents of her nephew's letter, that Charlotte, really rejoicing in the match, was anxious to get away till the storm was blown over.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

These characteristics mean impactors tend to compress the surface, rather than excavating it, and most material that is blown off the surface never returns.

(Cassini Prepares for Last Up-close Look at Hyperion, NASA)

I'll put my hand in no man's hand, said Mr. Micawber, gasping, puffing, and sobbing, to that degree that he was like a man fighting with cold water, until I have—blown to fragments—the—a—detestable—serpent—HEEP!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Possibilities proposed have included accumulation in lakebeds, volcanic eruptions under glaciers within the canyons, and acculation of wind-blown sand and dust.

(Signs of Ancient Mars Lakes and Quakes Seen in New Map, NASA)

Solicitor—for just before leaving London I got word that my examination was successful; and I am now a full-blown solicitor!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Otherwise the fumes of powder could not have been blown so rapidly through the house.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It all added up to Earth being inside a bubble of hot gas blown by exploding stars.

(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)

The findings hint that material blown out into space may dramatically vary in composition.

(Finding Alien Life Unlikely Due to Lack of Phosphorus in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)