blows off

present tense third-person singular of blow off
1
as in leaves
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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2
as in skips
to fail to attend blew off the committee meeting, thinking that it would just be a colossal waste of time

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Verb
  • Proponents argue recordings would solve a long-standing crisis that leaves many proceedings with no verbatim record.
    Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026
  • Detergent overdosing also leaves behind a film on the inside of the washer, which feeds mold and causes odors.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • This recipe skips the traditional green food coloring in favor of chives for noticeably colorful freshness.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • Morton takes on conversations the wider disability conversation often skips.
    Keely Cat-Wells, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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  • News 12 reported that the boy's body had been discovered at a waste collection center in Stamford, having been brought there by a truck that dumps trash and recyclables there.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • Towns dumps the ball off to Mitchell Robinson for his easiest two points of the night.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026
Verb
  • Memorizing where relationships happen in every country misses the point.
    Andy Molinsky, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Yet that misses the gentle buzz of excitement when Secrets visited.
    Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 30 June 2026
Verb
  • Meta ditches Ray-Ban and adds Kylie Jenner.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 24 June 2026
  • Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 June 2026
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“Blows off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blows%20off. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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