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upblow en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To inflate.
   • 1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,” […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]
   • And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony, Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne, His belly was vpblowne with luxury; 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 51:
   • With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown, And feels a Power which he believes his own; 1810, George Crabbe, The Borough, Letter 16, p. 214:
2. (archaic, transitive) To explode, blow up.
   • 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen, Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing.
   • The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown! 1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, Act III, scene v, page 117:
3. (ambitransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.
   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28, The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew;
   • The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste, 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 447:
   • 1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105, A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.
   • Here the rocky precipice Hurls forth redundant flames, and from the rim A blast upblown, with forcible rebuff Driveth them back, 1814, Dante Alighieri, “The Vision of Purgatory”, in Henry Francis Cary, transl., The Divine Comedy, Canto 25:
   • The woods break down, the sand upblows In blinding volleys warm; 1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 3:

Forms

Translations (2)

de aufblasen (inflate) · nl opblazen (inflate)