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blow over

blow over verb: to blow on something causing it to topple.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To blow on something causing it to topple.
    • The wind blew over the pole.
  2. (intransitive) To be knocked down by wind.
    • The tree blew over in the storm.
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To pass naturally; to go away; to calm down or subside.
    • They huddled, waiting for the storm to blow over.
    • You cannot simply wait for a problem like that to blow over.
  4. (transitive) To overwhelm.
    • I'm still mending from all that time ago, that was your purpose, so this could happen for me and so I can change the world and make it a better place, but I can't without fans, that blow me over with their wishes and dreams that couldn't exist without them.2011, Sandra Leigh Savage, Love Letters, →ISBN, page 79

blow over meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

blow over in Bengali

বাতাস দ্বারা উল্টে পড়া, স্বাভাবিকভাবে শেষ হওয়া, চলে যাওয়া, শান্ত হওয়া, প্রশমিত হওয়া, অভিভূত করা

blow over in Malayalam

subside, abate, drop off
കാറ്റടിച്ചുപോകുക, അകന്നുപോവുക, ശമിക്കുക, കുറയുക, ശക്തികുറയുക, കുറവുണ്ടാകുക

blow over in Kannada

ಶಾಂತವಾಗು, ಹೊರಟುಹೋಗು

Forms of blow over

third-person singular presentblows over
present participleblowing over
pastblew over
past participleblown over

Questions about blow over

What does blow over mean?
Blow over means to blow on something causing it to topple.
What is blow over in Bengali?
Blow over in Bengali is বাতাস দ্বারা উল্টে পড়া, স্বাভাবিকভাবে শেষ হওয়া, চলে যাওয়া. See Blow over meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is blow over?
Blow over is a verb.
What is the past tense of blow over?
The past tense of blow over is blew over.

Words near blow over in the dictionary

  1. blow out
  2. blow out of proportion
  3. blow out of proportions
  4. blow out of the water
  5. blow out one's bags
  6. blow over
  7. blow past
  8. blow poke
  9. blow pokes
  10. blow sky high
  11. blow smoke

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blow over (page history and authors); blow over (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blow over (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); blow over (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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