Meaning

Capable of being blown or blown away; that can be subjected to blowing..

Definitions by Sense

1. Capable of being blown or blown away; that can be subjected to blowing.
2. That is operated by blowing
3. That can be achieved or produced by blowing.
4. (of an egg) That can be emptied by blowing; that does not contain any large solid developing bird.
5. That can blow, or expel air.
6. That can be blown up or blown off; subject to explosive forces.
7. (electronics) That can cease to function when overloaded.
8. Secret and vulnerable to being revealed.

Example Sentences

The molten glass has to be the correct viscosity to be blowable.

The gale force wind blew every blowable object to the north, including things I didn't even know were blowable, like the roof.

Moreover, if resins should be eventually produced in a form in which they are "blowable," may we not find then that their properties are almost exactly like those of glass —and particularly in regard to brittleness?

Give them time to get the gum chewed and blowable .

Engineers are considering using the blowable insulation to rehabilitate residential buildings in Chicago under an Argonne partnership with Bethel New Life, a Chicago community economic initiative.

Initial flooding will be accomplished via linear irrigation configurations to provide maximum coverage of the blowable surface.

Some small dunefields are almost wholly active, in the sense that all the dunes are in movement, and most of the surface bare and blowable.

The change-process story is this: in the relevant arrangement, the wind exercises its power to push a blowable thing, and a blowable thing exercises its power to catch the wind and move.

Word Forms

• more blowable
• most blowable

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When Should You Use Blowable?

Use blowable when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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