Meaning

(transitive, archaic) To inflate..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, archaic) To inflate.
2. (transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up.
3. (ambitransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.

Example Sentences

1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,” […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]

And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne, His belly was vpblowne with luxury;

With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown, And feels a Power which he believes his own;

1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen, Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing.

The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!

1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28, The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew;

1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105, A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.

The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,

Word Forms

• upblows
• upblowing
• upblew
• upblown

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