blowing away

Verb

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

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
2. (transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
   • He blew away the dust which had collected on the book.
3. (intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
   • I didn't have to rake. The leaves just blew away.
4. (figuratively, intransitive) To leave, depart.
   • She was like / Jazz on a summer's day / Music, high and sweet / Then she just blew away1982, Steve Winwood, Will Jennings, “Valerie”
5. (idiomatic, transitive) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
   • The kid just blew the clerk away.
6. (broadly, idiomatic, transitive) To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force.
   • In the end, the question proved to be academic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike...2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 162

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