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BLOW OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Melt, break, or become otherwise unusable
Example:
The fuse blew
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "blow out" is one way to...):
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
blowout (a sudden malfunction of a part or apparatus)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Erupt in an uncontrolled manner
Example:
The oil well blew out
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Hypernyms (to "blow out" is one way to...):
catch fire; combust; conflagrate; erupt; ignite; take fire (start to burn or burst into flames)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
Example:
snuff out the candles
Synonyms:
blow out; extinguish; quench; snuff out
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blow out"):
stub (extinguish by crushing)
douse; put out (put out, as of a candle or a light)
black out (obliterate or extinguish)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
