blow away

verb

blew away; blown away; blowing away; blows away

transitive verb

1

: to dissipate or remove as if with a current of air

their doubts were blown away

2

: to kill by gunfire : shoot dead

3

: to impress very strongly and usually favorably

4

: to defeat soundly

blew their rivals away in the first game

Synonyms of blow away

• overcome
• bomb
• bury
• upset
• snow under
• whip
• throw
• master
• skin
• cream
• beat
• trim
• beat the pants off
• smoke
• run circles around
• dust
• rout
• annihilate
• paste
• flatten
• eat alive
• top
• wipe the floor with
• smother
• overwhelm
• take

Examples of blow away in a Sentence

the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion

Recent Examples on the Web

The normal matter within those globular clusters gets blown away, ejected from the dark matter halo that surrounds them. —Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026

And so at the Roundtable, I was just blown away the first time. —Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Feb. 2026

The heat wave was on pace to blow away previous records. —Christian Cervantes, AZCentral.com, 26 Feb. 2026

The quality is incredible, and they [Roller Rabbit] are blown away. —Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 25 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for blow away

• aaa
• adonais
• alleyway
• alumnae
• anime
• anyway
• arete
• attache
• baa
• beaujolais
• bouvier
• breakaway