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blow out

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blow out
1. the sudden melting of an electrical fuse
2. a sudden burst in a tyre
3. the failure of a jet engine, esp when in flight
(jargon)blow out - (Probably from mining and tunnelling jargon) Of software, to fail spectacularly; almost as serious as crash and burn.

See blow past, blow up, die horribly.


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Now blow out the trumpets, and may God's benison be with the honest men
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
I have heard of such things before, but never came across, till tonight, a man who would actually shoot himself in order to gain a vulgar notoriety, or blow out his brains for spite, if he finds that people don't care to pat him on the back for his sanguinary intentions.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
The bourgeois permitted the wind to blow out their candles in the windows, and their dogs to stray; the iron chains were stretched only in a state of siege; the prohibition to wear daggers wrought no other changes than from the name of the Rue Coupe-Gueule to the name of the Rue-Coupe-Gorge* which is an evident progress.
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