blown
Distended, swollen, or inflated.
Adjective
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Formed by blowing.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
Synonyms: blazed reefed spaced-out baked blitzed blown chemically impaired chopped cut drugged drugged-out fuckered up fried gassed geeked high high as a kite hepped up hopped up monged munted trolleyed toasted lifted
- 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...
Synonyms: good-for-nothing no good valueless bastardly blown cacky chaffy cocking crapalicious cruddy cullionly draffish draffy dreckish drecky duffing floccinaucinihilipilificatious for the birds fucking garbagey good-for-naught goodless ineffectual invaluable
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- Given a hot rod blower.
Synonyms: supercharged
Coordinate Terms: turbocharged
- 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...
- 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.
Origin
From Middle English blawen, from Old English blāƿen, blāwen, past participle of Old English blāwan. Morphologically blow + -n.
Forms
Derived
ale-blown blown flap blown glass blown-in-the-bottle blown-off blown out endblown freeblown full-blown glassblown handblown inblown mindblown mouthblown outblown sideblown unblown windblown
Verb
- past participle of blow