blown off

past participle of blow off
1
as in left
to end a usually intimate relationship with before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off

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2
as in missed
to fail to attend blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time

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Recent Examples of blown off But then someone let one of the Infected on the team’s flight to Australia, and the Zombie Rams got their doors blown off by the 49ers. — Gary Davenport, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Shoot, how about just getting blown off the line of scrimmage on offense and defense throughout the night? — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2026 The weather resulted in multiple reports of fallen trees, according to Green, as well as an industrial building near Interstate 30 that had its garage doors blown off. — Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2026 Photos and video on social media show the roof of a motel being blown off and damage to other buildings along Route 13 northeast of downtown. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Arriving crews found that the building’s rain roof had been blown off and strewn across the south parking lot, Nolan said. — Kansas City Star, 19 Aug. 2026 Three men in their 70s were slightly injured — two of them were caught in the wind and a third one fell from a stool, apparently blown off by the wind while preparing for the storm, the Okinawa prefecture said. — ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026 After defeating Troy and setting sail for home, Odysseus, the ruler of a small kingdom, and his men are blown off course. — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 July 2026 Odysseus continues his journey as his ship is blown off course by Aeolus, the God of Wind, and eventually lands on the island of Aeaea, where the goddess/witch Circe (Samantha Morton) turns Odysseus’ crew into pigs. — Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
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Verb
  • Separately, police said another woman was found dead on Sunday in Soweto, south of Johannesburg, her body wrapped in a duvet and dumped near a dam.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Eventually, the firms dumped the valuable slag into waste piles and wrote off the metals inside.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2026
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  • That’s a fantastic sign for Birdville, a team that barely missed the postseason last year.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Edge rusher Jaelan Phillips (back) also missed practice, as did Waller (vet rest day), Scott (rib), Jalen Coker (ankle) and Cherelus (shoulder).
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 23 Sep. 2026
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  • Staff at the meat department washed a trap containing raw chicken juice and skipped the sanitizing step.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But the proposal was vague on details and skipped over making a promise to renovate.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2026

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“Blown off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blown%20off. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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