Thesaurus results for BLOWS AWAY

blows away

verb

Definition of blows away next

present tense third-person singular of blow away

as in bombs

to defeat by a large margin the chess prodigy completely blew away the reigning world champion

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Recent Examples of blows away If there are heavier, harder-to-blow-away elements around them, planets can form around them, and if there are clumps of matter in the same cloud that haven’t quite grown enough to form stars when the rest of the material in the initial cloud blows away, what remains can be a planet, too. —

Big Think, 17 Apr. 2026 Last word *Now that Tom Seaver’s family has put a lot of his memorabilia up for auction, including his 1969 World Series ring, here’s hoping that Mets owner Steve Cohen blows away all bidders and gets some of that stuff to display at Citi Field. —

Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2026 The Icemag 3’s small fan on its rear quickly blows away any extra heat build-up, enabling the phone to charge quickly while remaining at a safe temperature, even when it’s being used a lot. —

Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026 This blows away the daily record and ends up in second place ever for the month of August. —

Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

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The United States bombs Iran's nuclear facilities days later.

— Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
Page Six gets a Hollywood edition Papps declined last week to reveal what stories his reporters were chasing and what bombs the political columnists will throw in its first editions.

— Christopher Weber, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026