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third-person singular simple present upblows, present participle upblowing, simple past upblew, past participle upblown
(transitive, archaic) To inflate. quotations
[…] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]
1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,”
And by his side rode loathsome Gluttony,Deformed creature, on a filthie swyne,His belly was vpblowne with luxury;
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 51
With Wine inflated, Man is all upblown,And feels a Power which he believes his own;
1810, George Crabbe, The Borough, Letter 16, p. 214
(transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up. quotations
Ingyniers in the trench / earth, earth uprearing, / Gun-powder in the mynes, / Pagans upblowing.
1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen
The bridge of Lindenau has been upblown!
1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], part third, London: Macmillan and Co., […], Act III, scene v, page 117
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction. quotations
The watry Southwinde from the seabord costeVpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 447
The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; / Yet never a breeze up-blew;
1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28
Here the rocky precipiceHurls forth redundant flames, and from the rimA blast upblown, with forcible rebuffDriveth them back,
1814, Dante Alighieri, “The Vision of Purgatory”, in Henry Francis Cary, transl., The Divine Comedy, Canto 25
The woods break down, the sand upblowsIn blinding volleys warm;
1893, Louise Imogen Guiney, “Peter Rugg the Bostonian”, in A Roadside Harp,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 3
A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.
1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105