Meanings
- not comparableDetailing every action or occurrence completely.
He gave a blow-by-blow account of the entire trip.
1 more example
In a lapidary style, Qiu Dongping clearly and forcefully describes battlefield actions with simple sentences, giving a blow-by-blow account of successive events with neither understatement nor exaggeration.
2000, Yunzhong Shu, chapter 2, in Buglers on the Home Front: The Wartime Practice of the Qiyue School, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 58
plural blow-by-blows
- An account, description, or commentary including every detail of the action or event.
The media published a blow-by-blow of the trial as it happened.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveproviding great detail
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Probably suggesting a detailed description of a fight or boxing match, where blow means a hit or a landed punch.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan detallat
- detallatdetailing completely
Finnish yksityiskohtainen, pikkutarkka
- yksityiskohtainendetailing completely
- pikkutarkkadetailing completely
- yksityiskohtainen kuvausaccount including every detail
French détaillé
- détaillédetailing completely
German detailliert
- detailliertdetailing completely
Italian dettagliato
- dettagliatodetailing completely
Spanish detallado
- detalladodetailing completely
Swedish detaljerad
- detaljeraddetailing completely
Welsh o hwrdd i hwrdd
- o hwrdd i hwrdddetailing completely
Cite this entry
blow-by-blow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blow-by-blow
“blow-by-blow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blow-by-blow. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blow-by-blow,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blow-by-blow.
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