BLEW OFF Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

blew off

verb

past tense of blow off

as in left

to end a usually intimate relationship with before she embarks on another relationship, she should try to figure out why all those other men have blown her off

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as in skipped

to fail to attend blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time

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Recent Examples of blew off Police and fire personnel were called to the gym on South Bowen Road and Park Row Drive in Pantego, where a sign blew off the building along with the front facade of the building. —

S.e. Jenkins, CBS News, 26 May 2026 Cox, who blew off a similar hearing last month and agreed to appear at this one after the Council threatened to subpoena him, repeated his stance on why his department was not releasing the footage tied to the King shooting. —

Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 23 May 2026 Instead of abiding by his orders to stand down, Miles blew off plans with Maddie (Morgan Lindholm) to hunt down Diaz, the man in charge of the cartel responsible for the fentanyl. —

Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026 Apparently, Trick had been warned about keeping the show PG-13 and to behave beforehand, but blew off the memo. —

Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026 Things took a turn for the worse two years ago when a door plug blew off an Alaska Air 737 Max shortly after take-off, renewing questions about the safety of its manufacturing and put federal restrictions on the pace of production. —

Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026 On Monday, the Basnight Bridge was temporarily closed after a modular home blew off its trailer. —

Filip Timotija, The Hill, 17 Sep. 2025 The plane used by Alaska Airlines was forced to make an emergency landing when the door plug blew off the aircraft in mid-flight. —

ArsTechnica, 15 Sep. 2025 The building has suffered decline from a leaky roof and broken windows, and spring 2025 storms blew off its temporary roof and drenched some of its floors. —

Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 21 Aug. 2025

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But especially especially Bea, who got dumped from the island.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 13 June 2026
In order to standardize their modeling, over the last couple of decades climate scientists developed a suite of projections for how much CO2 would get dumped into the atmosphere via fossil fuel use.

— Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026