blow away
to kill (someone) by shooting
to defeat decisively
Words Nearby blow away
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
How to use blow away in a sentence
There is no cloud that, say, a documentary about the environment or a fundraiser at your home for Hillary Clinton can't blow away.
These are basically cowardly people who sneak up on one another and blow away their targets in imitation of Mafia gangsters.
You know that I come of tough fiber—of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinHe had decided to let it stand or blow away, as fortune might decide.
The Two Admirals | J. Fenimore CooperFor the gold will turn to silver soon and all will blow away.
Graded Memory Selections | Various
Dandelions are gone, except the whiteheads, and they would blow away before they got themselves settled in church, I am afraid.
Little Fishers: and their Nets | PansyShe seems to draw me and draw me, and she wouldn't leave a single hair of me free to fall out and blow away—she'd keep it.
Sons and Lovers | David Herbert Lawrence
Other Idioms and Phrases with blow away
Kill, especially by gunshot or explosion. For example, The unit reported that the whole village was blown away. This usage became particularly widespread in the 1960s, during the Vietnam War. [Slang; early 1990s]
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