upblowing
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Adjective
[edit]upblowing (comparative more upblowing, superlative most upblowing)
- Blowing in an upward direction
- 1864, The Evangelical Quarterly Review, volumes 15-16, page 52:
- […] the ever-changing panorama of the seasons, with the green spring, yellow summer, and the purple autumn, always rejoicing in the vales; and the white winter always, if not only, frosting the loftiest summits above them, cooling the down-flowing waters, and the upblowing winds, and imaging to the pure below the still greater purity of the regions to which they point: […]
Verb
[edit]upblowing
- present participle and gerund of upblow
Etymology 2
[edit]From upblow + -ing or up- + blowing.
Noun
[edit]upblowing (countable and uncountable, plural upblowings)
- An act or instance of blowing up