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blow a hole through en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To destroy the integrity or cohesion of.
    • Unless the letters were fake, they blew a hole through Martha's story. 2020, Thomas Mullen, Midnight Atlanta:
    • By rolling into the city that Vladimir Putin still claimed as his own, the leader of Ukraine would blow a hole through the stories of conquest and imperial glory that Russian propagandists had been using for months to justify the war. 2022 December 7, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:
    • 'By taking down the towers, Sept 11 blew a hole through the errors of the past. 2017, John Strawson, Law after Ground Zero:
    • That one small confession to a man she barely knew blew a hole through her emotional dam and everything she'd held back for the last week flooded out. 2012, Jennifer Allee, A Wild Goose Chase Christmas:
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, hole, through.

Forms

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blew a hole through Tense=Past lexicographic
blowing a hole through Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blown a hole through Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blows a hole through Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic