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語源

From 中期英語 blawen, from 古期英語 blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of 古期英語 blāwan.

Morphologically blow +‎ -n.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /bləʊn/
  • (Northumbria) IPA: /blaːn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /bloʊn/
• 韻: -əʊn

形容詞

blown (not comparable)

1. Distended, swollen, or inflated.

   Synonyms: bulled, tumid, puffed

   Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.

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

   Synonyms: blazed, reefed, spaced-out; see also Thesaurus:stoned

5. (obsolete) Stale; worthless.

   Synonyms: good-for-nothing, no good, valueless; see also Thesaurus:worthless

   • 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, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 33:

     [T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.

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

   Synonym: supercharged

   Coordinate term: turbocharged

8. Having failed.

   a blown head gasket

   • 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:

     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 batteries were sufficiently recharged.

派生語

動詞

blown

1. past participle of blow