blown

Adjective

blown (not comparable)

1. Distended, swollen, or inflated.
   • Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.

   Synonyms:

   bulled, tumid, puffed

2. Panting and out of breath.
3. Formed by blowing.
4. Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.

   Synonyms:

   blazed, reefed, spaced-out, baked, blitzed, chemically impaired, chopped, cut, drugged, drugged-out

5. (obsolete) Stale; worthless.
   • [T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]...

   Synonyms:

   good-for-nothing, no good, valueless, bastardly, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly

6. Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
7. Given a hot rod blower.

   Synonyms:

   supercharged

8. Having failed.
   • a blown head gasket
   • Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the...1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159
9. (informal) Of a vein, ruptured or punctured as a result of an injection or cannula, causing fluid (blood, medication, or saline) to leak into the surrounding tissue.