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blow (something) out
phrasal verb with blowverbuk /bləʊ/ us /bloʊ/blew | blown
B1
If a flame blows out or you blow it out, it stops burning when a person or the wind blows on it: （被）吹熄，（被）吹灭
After dinner she blew out the candles.晚饭后她吹灭了蜡烛。
The sudden breeze made the candles blow out.突然的一阵微风吹灭了蜡烛。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Stopping fires
beat
beat something out
blow
damp
damp something down
douse
extinguish
extinguishment
go
go out
gutter
quench
smother
snuff
snuff something out
sprinkler
sprinkler system
blow someone out
phrasal verb with blowverbuk /bləʊ/ us /bloʊ/blew | blown
UKinformal
to disappoint someone by not meeting them or not doing something that you had arranged to do together: 失约于…;放…的鸽子
She was supposed to go to that party with me, but she blew me out.她本该与我一起去那个聚会的，可是她失约了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abjure
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
quit
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom
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