blow over
English
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Verb
blow over (third-person singular simple present blows over, present participle blowing over, simple past blew over, past participle blown over)
- To blow on something causing it to topple.
- The wind blew over the pole.
- To be knocked down by wind.
- The tree blew over in the storm.
- (idiomatic) To pass naturally; to go away; to calm down or subside.
- They huddled, waiting for the storm to blow over.
- You cannot simply wait for a problem like that to blow over.
- To overwhelm.
- 2011, Sandra Leigh Savage, Love Letters, →ISBN, page 79:
- I'm still mending from all that time ago, that was your purpose, so this could happen for me and so I can change the world and make it a better place, but I can't without fans, that blow me over with their wishes and dreams that couldn't exist without them.
Translations
to blow on something causing it to topple
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to pass naturally; to go away; to settle or calm down
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