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Synonyms for blow
Synonyms for blow: puff, bump, gust and shock. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for blow
Interchangeable with blow in this sense
Audited under blow's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one blow carries in that sense.
- puffnoun, in the sense "forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name blow as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
one of these comes from blow's own entry in the bank, and three were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
He gave his nose a loud blow.
The true synonym
puff
Same sentence, swapped: He gave his nose a loud puff.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- snow
- shock
- snorting
Where blow turns up in the game
blow is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where blow is the trap
- flyverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is wing, in the sense "travel through the air", with blow sitting one tile away.
- driftverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is roll, in the sense "move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment", so blow is there to be ruled out.
- flawnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fault, in the sense "an imperfection in an object or machine", and blow is one of the three tiles that lose.
- wasteverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is desolate, in the sense "cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly", and blow is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play blow
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so blow reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from actions at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. blow carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.