upblowing

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adjective

Blowing in an upward direction

Scrabble 17

Meanings

upblowing1

adjectiveupblowing (comparative more upblowing, superlative most upblowing)

comparative more upblowing · superlative most upblowing

  1. Blowing in an upward direction
    1 more example

    […] the ever-changing panorama of the seasons, with the green spring, yellow summer, and the purple autumn, always rejoicing in the vales; and the white winter always, if not only, frosting the loftiest summits above them, cooling the down-flowing waters, and the upblowing winds, and imaging to the pure below the still greater purity of the regions to which they point: […]

    1864, The Evangelical Quarterly Review, volumes 15-16, page 52
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of upblow

upblowing2

nounupblowing (countable and uncountable, plural upblowings)

plural upblowings

  1. countableuncountableAn act or instance of blowing up

Origin

upblowing · adjective, verb

From upblow + -ing.

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Chicago

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