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

Goals from Ollie Watkins, Emi Buendia and a brace from John McGinn blew away Forest, who had been leading 1-0 after the first leg. —Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 7 May 2026

Pichai was particularly blown away when DeepMind’s AI system AlphaGo played a brilliant, novel move in the strategy board game Go against champion Lee Sedol in 2016, revealing that AI could think creatively and beyond mere mimicry. —Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 May 2026

Officials say they were blown away by the community's willingness to participate in this exercise. —Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 2 May 2026

Mythos has blown away just about every benchmark of AI progress, including completing complex coding tasks and solving graduate-level problems across a range of subjects. —Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 1 May 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