BLOWS

"BLOWS" is a plural of: blow.

Date "BLOWS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Circumstance

According to circumstances, according to the occasion; as it may happen, as it may turn out,as it may be; as the case may be, as the wind blows; pro re nata.

Contention

Verb: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight; (war); wrangle; (quarrel).

Join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms; (warfare).

Direction

Ascertain one's direction; Noun: s'orienter, see which way the wind blows; box the compass; take the air line.

Eventuality

Phrase: that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring; the plot thickens; "breasts the blows of circumstance"; "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the waste of years".

Experiment

Grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, t_tonner, aller _ t_tons, put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a trial balloon, send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check out, see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse; fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net, beat the bushes.

Foresight

See one's way; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, see how the wind blows, test the waters, see how the cat jumps.

Skill

See one's way, see where the wind lies, see which way the wind blows; have all one's wits about one, have one's hand in; savoir vivre; scire quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent.

Tergiversation

Trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Crosswords: BLOWS

Dukey, if this thing blows up, the Feds will be the least of our problems (The Sting; writing credit: David S. Ward)

Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was running! (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

This country blows. (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar)

Just a thought I wanted to pop into your fishbowl to see if it blows bubbles. (Drop the Dead Donkey; writing credit: Andy Hamilton; Guy Jenkin)

You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up (Ironic; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

He blows it eight to the bar in boogie rhythm. (Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy; performing artist: Bette Midler)

Wait in that corner until that breeze blows in (You're Only Human (Second Wind); performing artist: Billy Joel)

In my life I've been hammered by some heavy blows (Ain't Nothing 'Bout You; performing artist: Brooks & Dunn)

And the jukebox blows a fuse (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

Bright blows the broom on the brook's bare brown banks. (references; author: unknown)

When the North Wind Blows (1974)

Blows and Pillows (1972)

Thar She Blows! (1969)

After the Whistle Blows (1964)

Fifi Blows Her Top (1958)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Alula-Belle Blows into Town (Alula-Belle Adventures, No 1) (reference)

• The Wind Blows Backward (reference)

• Monsieur Melville: When Moby-Dick Blows (reference)

• Girl Reporter Blows Lid Off Town! (Get Real, No. 1) (reference)

• Low Blows (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Blitzkrieg Attacks:Knockout Blows Fro (reference)

• The Magic Bus: Blows Its Top (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Love Is My Profession/Where the Hot Wind Blows! [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Sea oats are one of the important plants found on the sand dunes within Canaveral National Seashore. The sea oats trap the sand as it blows in from the beach and allows the sand dunes to grow. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A pump blows air into the riverbed to loosen the sand and gravel so the dredge can work through it later. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

"Thar she blows!!!" Studying whales on the DELAWARE II. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Wind erosion blows off an unprotected cultivated field in Manhattan, Kansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Blows up during the early phases of Battle off Cape Engaño, 25 October 1944. The damage appears to involve an large and intense fire in the vicinity of the ship's torpedo tubes. This view is cropped from Photo # 80-G-284703. Credit: NAVY.

Japanese destroyer Akizuki blows up during the battle's early phases. The battleship maneuvering in the left background is either Ise or Hyuga. See Photo # 80-G-284703 (cropped) for an enlargement of a portion of this image, emphasizing Akizuki. Credit: NAVY.

A heavy explosion on board USS Lexington (CV-2) blows an aircraft over her side, 8 May 1942. This is probably the "great explosion" from the detonation of torpedo warheads stowed in the starboard side of the hangar, aft, that took place just after the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Frederick C. Sherman, left Lexington. At left is the bow of USS Hammann (DD-412), which was backing away with a load of the carrier's survivors on board. This view appears to be cropped from Photo # 80-G-7413. Credit: NAVY.

Straw votes show which way the wind blows. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Spring wind blows amid ten thousand willow branches (Chinese traditional painting). Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I writhe with the blows you put upon me... (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

From its most terrible blows comes a caress for the human race.

Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence.

Cotton clings to the fence wires, and cotton rolls in little balls along the road when the wind blows.

Though it is now dark, the mind still blows and roars in the wood, the waves still dash, and some creatures lull the rest with their notes.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The scope also blows air into these organs, which inflates them and helps the physician see better. (references)

You may have some discomfort when the physician blows air into the duodenum and injects the dye into the ducts. (references)

Other causes of brain injury are severe blows to the head, brain tumors, brain infections, and other conditions of the brain. (references)

Civil Liberties

Haiti

On May 21, several residents of the village of Chenet killed a houngan (male voodoo priest) by stoning and with machete blows. (references)

Canada

The student was arrested after reading aloud in class a fictional essay he wrote for a class assignment, in which a bullied boy blows up his school. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

A dry, northeasterly wind, the Harmattan, blows in January and February. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Casasalo died April 11 as a result of the blows that he received. (references)

El Salvador

He was brought to the hospital, where he died of trauma to the abdomen caused by blows. (references)

Mexico

The family alleges that he was beaten, noting bruises on his face and blows to his head. (references)

Political Economy

Sri Lanka

The January 1996 destruction of the Central Bank and surrounding buildings in Colombo's financial district, the October 1997 bombing of the World Trade Center and adjacent five-star hotels in the same vicinity and the January 1998 attack on the country's pre-eminent Buddhist shrine in Kandy, the Temple of the Tooth Relic, were particularly hard blows to investor (and tourist) confidence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "BLOWS": as the wind blows ♦ assail smb. with blows ♦ come to blows ♦ exchange blows ♦ exchange of blows ♦ fall to blows ♦ find out how the wind blows ♦ it blows great guns ♦ murderous blows ♦ proceed from words to blows ♦ proceed to blows ♦ see how the wind blows ♦ see which way the wind blows ♦ To come to blows ♦ wait to see how the wind blows ♦ when the whistle blows. Additional references.

Ending with "BLOWS": body-blows, counter-blows, hammer-blows.

Albanian

marr pjesë në rrahje (come to blows). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تقاتل (come to blows, fight), ‏تشاجر (brawl, broil, come to blows, fraying, hassle, jangle, quarrel, row, rumble, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, spat, squabble). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стигам до бой (come to blows). (various references)

Chinese 

不�"不相識 (from an exchange of blows friendship grows, no concord, no discord). (various references)

Danish

slagserie (series of blows). (various references)

Dutch

tocht (excursion, journey, outing, sightseeing trip, trip, voyage), reeks slagen (series of blows). (various references)

Finnish

tapella (be at blows, fight), ottaa yhteen (clash, come to blows, join battle with), joutua tappeluun (come to blows, get to fighting), joutua käsikähmään (come to blows), iskeä yhteen (clash, collide, come to blows, crash). (various references)

French

volée de coups (series of blows), se quereller (come to blows), se battre (come to blows), au coup de sifflet (when the whistle blows). (various references)

German

bläst (toots, whiffs), Stösse (hitches, impacts). (various references)

Greek 

κύκλος κτυπημάτων (series of blows), χειροδικώ (come to blows). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכות רצח (murderous blows, walloping), ל�"תקוטט (come to blows, quarrel, row, scrap, tussle, wrangle). (various references)

Hungarian

verekedésre kerül a sor (to proceed to blows), hogy áll a dolog? (how blows the wind?, what's the score?), elagyabugyál vkit (to give sy a beating, to give sy a hammering, to give sy a trouncing, to give sy gyp, to give sy socks, to lay into sy, to rain blows on sy), ütést vált (to exchange blows). (various references)

Italian

volata (round, series of blows, volley), serie di colpi (series of blows), picchiare (batter, beat, belt, come to blows, cuff, fight, hit, knock, slap, slat, slug, sock, strike, tap, thump, whack), azzuffarsi (brawl, come to blows, fight, row, scrap, scuffle, tussle), affrontare (affront, brave, breast, come to blows, confront, dare, deal with, encounter, face, face up to, head, meet, square up, stand up to, tackle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

風穴 (air hole, cave from which cold wind blows, ventilator, windhole), 風前 (where the wind blows), �"ち合う (to exchange blows, to fight, to rally), �"ち合い (exchange of blows, long rally), 殴り合う　 (to exchange blows, to fight), 殴り合う (to exchange blows, to fight), 滅多�"ち (shower with blows), �'�ち合う (to exchange blows, to fight, to rally). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なぐりあう (to exchange blows, to fight), うちあう (to exchange blows, to fight, to rally), うちあい (exchange of blows, gunfight, long rally), ふうぜ�" (gonorrheal ophthalmia, where the wind blows), ふうけつ (cave from which cold wind blows), めったうち (shower with blows). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

batedura (beat, flogging, hammering, strapping, thrashing, whipping). (various references)

Romanian

trece de la injurii la lovituri (proceed from words to blows), simţi dincotro bate vântul (find out how the wind blows, find out how the wind lies), se lupta (combat, contend, exchange blows, fight, grapple, scramble, struggle), s-a stârnit o vijelie (it blows great guns), ajunge la bãtaie (come to blows). (various references)

Russian 

ссориться (come to blows, disagree, fall out, jar, quarrel, quarrelled, spat, spats, spatted), подраться (come to blows), перейти врукопашную (fall to blows), драться (brawl, come to blows, fight, scuffle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

započeti svađu (come to blows). (various references)

Spanish

tanda de golpes (series of blows), llegar a las manos (proceed to blows), ir a las manos (come to blows), andanada (burst, reprimand). (various references)

Swedish

drar (pulls). (various references)

Turkish

yumruklaşma (exchange of blows, fisticuffs, punch-up), yumrukla saldırmak (assail smb. with blows, lace into), yumruk yumruğa gelmek (come to blows, come to handgrips). (various references)

verbera, verberibus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "BLOWS": blowsed, blowsier, blowsiest, blowsily, blowsy. (additional references)

Words ending with "BLOWS": counterblows, deathblows, flyblows, overblows, shadblows. (additional references)

Misspellings

"BLOWS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: belows, blaws, blews, blewz, bloes, blois, bloow, blops, blos, blosm, bloss, blous, blouw, blowe, blowy, bluow, bowz. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bowls.

-1 letter: blow, bowl, bows, lobs, lows, owls, slob, slow, swob.

-2 letters: bos, bow, lob, low, owl, sob, sol, sow, wos.

-3 letters: bo, lo, os, ow, so, wo.

+1 letter: belows, blowsy, bowels, elbows.

+2 letters: barlows, behowls, bellows, billows, blowbys, blowers, blowsed, blowups, bowlegs, bowlers, bowless, lowboys, sowable, wobbles.

+3 letters: batfowls, beclowns, bestowal, blowfish, blowguns, blowiest, blowjobs, blowoffs, blowouts, blowsier, blowsily, bowlders, bowlfuls, bowlines, bowlings, browless, cowbells, disbowel, dowsabel, embowels, fishbowl, flyblows, lawbooks, lobworms, longbows, lowballs, lowbrows, outbawls, plowboys, shadblow, showable, snowball, snowbell, snowbelt, sowbelly, stowable, subworld, teabowls, washbowl, wobblers, wobblies.