blow off

verb

blew off; blown off; blowing off; blows off
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transitive verb

1
a
: to refuse to take notice of, honor, or deal with : ignore
decided to blow off two billion viewers— Harry Homburg
b
: to end a relationship with
2
: to outperform in a contest
3
: to fail to attend or show up for
blew off an official dinner

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Examples of blow off in a Sentence

before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time
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After Rubio’s orders to stop work, the cleanup crews were forced to abandon the site, and, for weeks, all that was covering the contaminated dirt were tarps, which at one point blew off in the wind. — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 17 Mar. 2025 This isn’t about a group of people who go up a mountain and get blown off by a storm. — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025 When 'breakthrough tech' comes along, the ops team isn’t blown off course. — Claus Jepsen, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025 Serhiy, 35, spent a month in the hospital, then 30 days on leave after Russian artillery blew off his right hand. — Dzvinka Pinchuk, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blow off

Word History

First Known Use

1631, in the meaning defined at sense 1b

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The first known use of blow off was in 1631

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