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How to spell blow

What it means: To force air out of the mouth.

In a sentence: I like to blow bubbles in the park. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as blo or blowe.

Same family: blows, blew, blown, blowup, blowout. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Blow” comes from Old English “blāwan,” meaning “to blow, breathe, kindle,” originally linked to air or wind. Over time, English speakers began using it figuratively to mean “waste” or “ruin,” as in blowing a chance or blowing your money.

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