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Definition: TO BLOW UPON |
TO BLOW UPON1. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Henry V. which are current in the mouths of schoolboys. --C. Lamb. A lady's maid whose character had been blown upon. --Macaulay. |
Crosswords: TO BLOW UPON |
| English words defined with "TO BLOW UPON": on the head ♦ Tendon reflex, To knock in the head. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO BLOW UPON": FIB ♦ rumor ♦ SCIMETAR, Spitting for Luck. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO BLOW UPON": Exsufflate. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "TO BLOW UPON"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | foltot ejt vki hírnevén (to blow upon sy's reputation). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 吹き掛ける (to force, to overcharge, to spur), 吹っ掛ける (to overcharge, to provoke). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ふきかける (to force, to overcharge, to spur), ふっかける (to overcharge, to provoke). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | otay owblay onupay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-n-o-o-o-p-t-u-w" | |
-3 letters: blowout. | |
-4 letters: blowup, bouton, bowpot, pluton, unbolt, uptown. | |
-5 letters: bloop, blown, blunt, poult, punto, puton, upbow. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 42 4C 4F 57 55 50 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000010 01001100 01001111 01010111 00100000 01010101 01010000 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   B L O W   U P O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0042 004C 004F 0057 0055 0050 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449236464957255504948 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | magyar |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | japán, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | angol |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Translations: Modern 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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