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blow off one's steam en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (uncommon) Synonym of blow off steam.
    • During this hour or hour and a half he used to take his fling, going round to the studies of all his acquaintance, sparring or gossiping in the hall, now jumping the old iron-bound tables, or carving a bit of his name on them, then joining in some chorus of merry voices — in fact, blowing off his steam, as we should now call it. 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
    • When she left I was desperate to get out of the house and I decided to take Violet outside to blow off my steam. 2007, Jill Kargman, Momzillas, London […]: Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 198:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
blown off one's steam Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blew off one's steam Tense=Past lexicographic
blows off one's steam Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
blowing off one's steam Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Synonyms

blow off steam