blew

/bluː/

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British/blʉw/

blew is the simple past of blow.

blew is the past participle of blow.

blew is the obsolete form of blue.

Meaning of blow

blow (third-person singular simple present blows, present participle blowing, simple past blew, past participle blown)

(intransitive) To produce an air current.
- Lear. Blow windes, & crack your cheeks; Rage, blow / You Cataracts, and Hyrricano's ſpout,c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
(transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.
- Blow the dust off that book and open it up.
(intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.
- The leaves blow through the streets in the fall.
(figuratively, transitive) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.
- "This is an unexpected pleasure!" exclaimed he. "What good fortune blows Lady Marchmont hither?"1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Friend at Court”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 260
(transitive) To create or shape by blowing.
- to blow bubbles
(transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.
- to blow the fire

blue (countable and uncountable, plural blues)

The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea; the colour midway between green and violet in the visible spectrum and one of the primary additive colours.
- Lady Penrhyn was quite handsome enough to have spared one ingredient in her cup of fascination, but, unfortunately, having been married in her teens, she expected to live in them, and, never being reminded by the trials to which her sex is subject, of the flight of years, and the inroads of...1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 204
Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
- I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?
A blue dye or pigment.
(uncountable) Blue clothing.
- The boys in blue marched to the pipers.
1. (in plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
2. A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
  - Come on, you blues!

Blew (plural Blews)

From Middle English blew, from Old English blēow, from Proto-West Germanic *blē.

Jewish surname, spelling variant of Blue.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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