blown

alternative blowne

1. not comparableDistended, swollen, or inflated.

   Cattle are said to be blown when gorged with green food which develops gas.

   Synonyms: bulled, tumid, puffed

2. not comparablePanting and out of breath.
3. not comparableFormed by blowing.
4. not comparableUnder the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.

   Synonyms: blazed, reefed, spaced-out, baked, blazed, blitzed, chemically impaired, chopped

5. not comparableobsoleteStale; worthless.

   [T]wo or three horsemen, [...] appeared returning at full gallop, their horses much blown, and the men apparently in a disordered flight.

   1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 33

   Synonyms: good-for-nothing, no good, valueless, bastardly, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious

6. not comparableCovered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
7. not comparableautomotiveGiven a hot rod blower.

   Synonyms: supercharged

8. not comparableHaving failed.

   a blown head gasket

   1 more example

   Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.

   1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159

9. informalnot comparablemedicineOf a vein, ruptured or punctured as a result of an injection or cannula, causing fluid (blood, medication, or saline) to leak into the surrounding tissue.

alternative blowne

1. participlepastpast participle of blow