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blow away

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(operating system, jargon)blow away - To remove (files and directories) from permanent storage, generally by accident. "He reformatted the wrong partition and blew away last night's netnews".

Compare: nuke.


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With the storm that is called "spirit" did I blow over thy surging sea; all clouds did I blow away from it; I strangled even the strangler called "sin.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
A successful whirl in the knight-errantry line -- now what is it when you blow away the non- sense and come down to the cold facts?
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
And then, if you please, with an eye gone and a piece of his face blow away, he came to the conclusion that the world wasn't such a bad place after all, and he lived happily ever afterwards.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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