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 Translation for 'to blow' from English to Icelandic
VERB   to blow | blew | blown
blowing | blows
SYNO black eye | blast | blow | ...
blásato blow
næðato blow [a cold wind]
sökka [sl.]to blow [sl.]
fyrirgera e-uto blow sth. [a chance]
sprengja e-ðto blow sth. [detonate, bust]
Nouns
áfall {hv}blow
kjaftshögg {hv}blow [to the face]
2 Words
fjúkato blow away
flæma e-n burtto blow sb. off [chase away]
feykja e-u burtto blow sth. away [brush away, e.g. leaves]
feykja e-u um kollto blow sth. down
blásari {k} [hárblásari]blow dryer
þurrka {kv} [blásari]blow-dryer
banahögg {hv}death blow
hamarshögg {hv}hammer blow
bylmings­högg {hv}mighty blow
vindhögg {hv}missed blow
banahögg {hv}mortal blow
3 Words
þeyta lúðurto blow a horn
flauta [með flautu]to blow a whistle
snýta sérto blow one's nose
flauta [á bíl]to blow the horn
4 Words
bera kápuna á báðum öxlumto blow hot and cold
blása á kertito blow out a candle
íþr.
flauta til loka leiks
to blow the final whistle
vindhögg {hv}blow in the air
Taxa/Species (Animals, Plants, Fungi)
skordýrT
fiskifluga {kv} [Calliphoridae]
blow fly
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Usage Examples English
  • In 1972, two JDL members were arrested and convicted of bomb possession and burglary in an attempt to blow up the Long Island residence of the Soviet Mission to the United Nations.
  • North American had originally suggested the hatch open outward and use explosive bolts to blow the hatch in case of emergency, as had been done in Project Mercury.
  • Miaoulis was forced to set charges in the flagship "Hellas" and the corvette "Hydra" to blow them up when he and his handful of followers returned to Hydra.
  • He was questioned and tortured over the next few days and confessed to wanting to blow up the House of Lords.
  • There are several means by which flautists breathe to blow air through the instrument and produce sound.

  • In 1962, Philip Farkas hypothesized told people to blow as if they were trying to cool soup.
  • To produce these sounds, the players use their vocal folds to produce the sounds of the animals whilst continuing to blow air through the instrument.
  • This system cancels out the need for the trains to blow their horns.
  • At this distance the solar wind becomes strong enough to blow the gas and dust away from the coma, and in doing so enlarging the tail.
  • Keen fights through the outposts and temples of the Shadowlands, rescuing the Gnosticenes, and the Oracle then tells Keen that the Shikadi are "shadow beings from the far side of the galaxy" who are building an Armageddon Machine at Korath III to blow up the galaxy and rebuild it as they wish afterwards.

  • To produce a sound with a closed flute, the player is required to blow air into a duct.
  • The 1998 film "Star Trek: Insurrection" involved Picard and the NCC-1701-E "Enterprise" crew risking their Starfleet careers to blow the whistle on a Federation conspiracy with the Son’a to forcibly relocate the Ba’ku from their planet.
  • This was mentioned in several Looney Tunes cartoons, where Marvin the Martian tried (unsuccessfully) to use his "Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator" to blow up the Earth.
  • They were said to be used to blow down the walls of Jericho.
  • In this case, a bocal may be used to allow the player to blow into the recorder while maintaining a comfortable hand position.

  • They discovered copious evidence of terrorist plots, including plans to blow up New York City skyscrapers.
  • Floor maltings began to be phased out in the 1940s in favor of "pneumatic plants", where large industrial fans are used to blow air through the germinating grain beds and to pass hot air through the malt being kilned.
  • An alternative is to place explosives so as to blow the trees down.
  • Agent Daisy Johnson while trying to blow up New York with the armor of the various villains she employed.
  • Two players are needed; one to operate the valves and one to blow into the mouthpiece.

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