blown

«blown» in Mova's school dictionary: Moved or pushed by wind or air: "The leaves were blown… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (past participle of blow: blow, blows, blew, blown, blowing); adjective (blown — a blown fuse, a blown tyre)

meaning for a pupil

1) Moved or pushed by wind or air: "The leaves were blown away." tree →

2) Made by blowing: "blown glass". tree →

3) Broken suddenly, like a fuse or a tyre that has burst. tree →

4) "Blown up" means exploded, or filled with air like a balloon. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and weather, objects are blown by wind; strong winds can blow trees down. In everyday life, balloons are blown up for parties and a light may stop working when a fuse has blown. Phrases: blown away, blown up, blown over, blown out, blown glass.

examples

• My hat was blown into the river. tree →
• All the balloons are blown up. tree →
• The candles were blown out. tree →
• The tree was blown down in the storm. tree →
• The fuse has blown, so the lights went out. tree →
• I was blown away by the concert! tree →
• “In two minutes,” he cried, “the ship will be blown to pieces.” tree →

note

Irregular: blow, blew, blown. Say "has blown", not "has blew"; say "it blew", not "it blowed". "Blown away" can mean really amazed. Don't confuse with "blown" and "bone" — or with "flown" (from fly). Safety: stay away from fallen power lines blown down by storms.

In the corpora

• What has been blown up or guessed?
• Pan-pipes are a row of reed pipes of different lengths tied together and blown across the top.
• A blown-up balloon shrinks a little in the cold and grows again when warmed.
• A runny nose is blown gently into a tissue, one side at a time, and the tissue goes in the bin.
• Blow is irregular: blow, blew, blown.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «blown» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.