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To knock over from wind.
Ill huff and Ill puff and Ill blow your house down.
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blow|down — «BLOH DOWN», noun. rupture of a cooling pipe in a nuclear reactor, especially in a power plant: »In nuclear parlance, “blowdown is synonymous with catastrophe, as it signifies loss of coolant with the nuclear reactor continuing to produce heat… … Useful english dictionary
blow down — transitive verb : to blow off * * * ˌblow ˈdown [intransitive/transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they blow down he/she/it blows down present participle … Useful english dictionary
blow down — phrasal verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms blow down : present tense I/you/we/they blow down he/she/it blows down present participle blowing down past tense blew down past participle blown down if something blows down or is blown down, the … English dictionary
blow down — phr verb Blow down is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑tent, ↑tree … Collocations dictionary
Blow-down-System — [ bləʊdaʊn ; englisch »Ausblassystem«], Sicherheits und Entleerungssystem u. a. in chemischen Anlagen und Raffinerien. Das Blow down System sammelt gasförmige und flüssige Produkte, die bei Notfällen und Undichtigkeiten von Anlageteilen… … Universal-Lexikon
Blow-down-System — Blow down Sys|tem [ bloudaun...] das; s <zu engl. to blow down »ausblasen« u. ↑System> Sicherheits u. Entleerungssystem u. a. in chem. Anlagen u. Raffinerien … Das große Fremdwörterbuch
blow down — Synonyms and related words: beat down, blow over, bowl down, bowl over, break down, bring down, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, cast down, chop down, cut down, dash down, deck, down, drop, fell, fetch down, flatten, hew down, knock down, knock over … Moby Thesaurus
blow down phrasal — verb (I, T) if the wind blows something down, or if something blows down, the wind makes it fall: blow sth down trees blown down in the gale … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
blow down — a tree that has fallen into the water and so creates a habitat for fishes … Dictionary of ichthyology
blow down — Prostrate (by the wind), overthrow, lay low … New dictionary of synonyms
