| 释义 |
blow something out1Use one’s breath to extinguish a flame: he blew out the candle...- Jerome's steady breathing soon blew the flame crystal out.
- But in a second, the emotion had gone as the flame of a candle did when the flame was blown out.
- He extinguishes these candles by blowing them out and all present clap their hands.
2Puff out one’s cheeks: he blew out his cheeks and sat down heavily on the couch...- I pushed my way inside the crowd moving on the dance floor and halted two or three people in, blowing my cheeks out and dragging my hands back through my hair.
- I turned away, blowing my cheeks out and running my hand through my hair.
- Even as he was thinking this, though, she tackled him and blew her cheeks out on his belly and all his worrying collapsed into laughter.
3North American informal Render a part of the body useless: he blew out his knee playing basketball...- They were perfectly aimed, blowing his arms out of their sockets and probably crippling him for life.
- Some club officials are privately worded that Johnson never will return to the All-Pro level he enjoyed before blowing his knee out in the preseason.
- Yeah, but I could step off a curb and blow my knee out, too.
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