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单词 blowing away
释义

blow away

verb

blew away; blown away; blowing away; blows away

transitive verb

1
: to dissipate or remove as if with a current of air
their doubts were blown away
2
: to kill by gunfire : shoot dead
3
: to impress very strongly and usually favorably
4
: to defeat soundly
blew their rivals away in the first game

Synonyms

  • annihilate
  • bomb
  • bury
  • clobber
  • cream
  • drub
  • dust
  • flatten
  • paste
  • rout
  • shellac
  • skin
  • skunk
  • smoke [slang]
  • smother
  • snow under
  • thrash
  • trim
  • tromp
  • trounce
  • wallop
  • wax [slang]
  • whip
  • whomp
  • whop
  • whap
  • whup
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Example Sentences

the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

blowing away

verb

present participle of blow away
as in running rings around
to defeat by a large margin the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • running rings around
  • overcoming
  • snowing under
  • wiping the ground with
  • bombing
  • beating the pants off
  • eating alive
  • wiping the floor with
  • running circles around
  • whipping
  • burying
  • routing
  • mastering
  • dusting
  • pasting
  • trimming
  • topping
  • flattening
  • upsetting
  • overwhelming
  • throwing
  • smoking
  • beating
  • whopping
  • thrashing
  • drubbing
  • annihilating
  • trouncing
  • knocking over
  • shellacking
  • smothering
  • skinning
  • clobbering
  • creaming
  • knocking off
  • walloping
  • waxing
  • taking
  • exceeding
  • surpassing
  • sweeping
  • whapping
  • scoring
  • tromping
  • prevailing (over)
  • whupping
  • triumphing (over)
  • conquering
  • winning (against)
  • destroying
  • succeeding
  • whomping
  • skunking
  • dispatching
  • capping
  • doing in
  • nosing out
  • licking
  • crushing
  • acing (out)
  • worsting
  • surmounting
  • edging (out)
  • overmatching
  • overbearing
  • finishing
  • subduing
  • overpowering
  • slaughtering
  • besting
  • overthrowing
  • outstripping
  • subjugating
  • vanquishing
  • transcending
  • eclipsing
  • hurdling
  • overtopping
  • bettering
  • upending
  • outdistancing
  • outshining
  • excelling
  • outdoing
  • flourishing
  • breaking
  • pipping
  • sinking
  • outfighting
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