VERB + BLOW
- give sth
- Give your nose a blow
ADJ
- hard, heavy, nasty, painful, powerful, severe, sharp, stinging, violent
- fatal, final, mortal
- glancing, light
- Jack caught him a glancing blow on the jaw
- single
- He killed the man with a single blow of his cricket bat
QUANT
- flurry, hail
- The man went down in a hail of blows
VERB + BLOW
- get, receive, suffer, take
- He suffered a severe blow to the head
- catch sb, deal sb, deliver, give sb, land, rain (down), strike sb
- It was the gardener who delivered the fatal blow. She landed a nasty blow on his nose. He rained heavy blows on the old woman
- exchange
- The boys exchanged blows with the police
- come to
- The children came to blows over the new toy
- aim
- She aimed a blow at Lucy
- avoid, deflect, dodge, parry, ward off
BLOW + VERB
- fall, land
- The blow landed on my right shoulder
PREP
- ~ of
- two blows of the axe
- ~ on
- a nasty blow on the head
- ~ to
- a blow to the victim's chest
ADJ
- big, great, major, serious, severe, terrible
- bitter, crippling, cruel, crushing, devastating, knock-out
- double
- decisive, mortal
- a mortal blow to British industry
- body
VERB + BLOW
- deal (sb/sth), deliver, strike
- His defeat dealt a crushing blow to the party
- receive, suffer
- cushion, soften
- to soften the blow of tax increases
- come as
- The news came as a bitter blow to the staff
BLOW + VERB
- come, fall
- The blow came at a meeting on Saturday
PREP
- ~ for
- A tax on books would be a body blow for education
- ~ to
- Her decision to live abroad was a terrible blow to her parents
PREP
- from
- a gale blowing from the west
- off
- The wind blew the papers off the table
PHRASES
- be blowing a gale
- It's blowing a gale out there!
- blow sth off course
- The ship was blown off course in the storm
PREP
- on
- He blew on his soup to cool it