Blow vs. Hit — What's the Difference?

To be in a state of motion. Used of the air or of wind.

To come into contact with forcefully; strike

To move along or be carried by the wind

To cause to come into contact

To move with or have strong winds

To deal a blow to

To expel a current of air, as from the mouth or from a bellows.

To cause an implement or missile to come forcefully into contact with

To produce a sound by expelling a current of air, as in sounding a wind instrument or a whistle.

To press or push (a key or button, for example)

To breathe hard; pant.

To reach with a propelled ball or puck

To release air or gas suddenly; burst or explode

To score in this way

To spout moist air from the blowhole. Used of a whale.

To perform (a shot or maneuver) successfully

To fail or break down, as from being operated under extreme or improper conditions

To propel with a stroke or blow

To melt or otherwise become disabled. Used of a fuse.

To execute (a base hit) successfully

(Informal) To move very fast in relation to something

To bat against (a pitcher or kind of pitch) successfully

(Slang) To go away; depart

To affect, especially adversely

(Informal) To boast.

To be affected by (a negative development)

Vulgar Slang To be disgustingly disagreeable or offensive

To win (a prize, for example), especially in a lottery.

To cause to move by means of a current of air

To arise suddenly in the mind of; occur to

To drive a current of air on, in, or through

(Informal) To go to or arrive at

To clear out or make free of obstruction by forcing air through

(Informal) To attain or reach

To shape or form (glass, for example) by forcing air or gas through at the end of a pipe.

To produce or represent accurately

To expel (air) from the mouth.

(Games) To deal cards to.

To cause air or gas to be expelled suddenly from

(Sports) To bite on or take (bait or a lure). Used of a fish.

To cause (a wind instrument) to sound.

To strike or deal a blow.

To sound

To come into contact with something; collide.

To cause to be out of breath.

To attack

To allow (a winded horse) to regain its breath.

To happen or occur

To demolish by the force of an explosion

To achieve or find something desired or sought

To lay or deposit eggs in. Used of certain insects.

(Baseball) To bat or bat well

To cause to fail or break down, as by operating at extreme or improper conditions

(Sports) To score by shooting, especially in basketball

To cause (a fuse) to melt or become disabled.

To ignite a mixture of air and fuel in the cylinders. Used of an internal-combustion engine.

To spend (money) freely and rashly.

A collision or impact.

To spend money freely on; treat

A successfully executed shot, blow, thrust, or throw.

(Slang) To spoil or lose through ineptitude

(Sports) A deliberate collision with an opponent, such as a body check in ice hockey.

To cause (a covert intelligence operation or operative) to be revealed and thereby jeopardized

A successful or popular venture

(Slang) To depart (a place) in a great hurry

A match of data in a search string against data that one is searching.

(Baseball) To throw (a pitch) so fast that a batter cannot swing fast enough to hit it

A connection made to a website over the internet or another network

Vulgar Slang To perform fellatio on.

An apt or effective remark.

To bloom or cause to bloom.

Abbr. H(Baseball) A base hit.

The act or an instance of blowing.

A dose of a narcotic drug.

A blast of air or wind.

A puff of a cigarette or a pipe.

A storm.

(Slang) A murder planned and carried out usually by a member of an underworld syndicate.

(Informal) An act of bragging.

To strike.

(Slang) Cocaine.

(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

A sudden hard stroke or hit, as with the fist or an object.

(transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

An unexpected shock or calamity.

(intransitive) To strike against something.

An unexpected attack; an assault.

(transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

A mass of blossoms

To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

The state of blossoming

To attack, especially amphibiously.

(intransitive) To produce an air current.

To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.

(transitive) To propel by an air current (or, if under water, a water current), usually with the mouth.

To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

(intransitive) To be propelled by an air current.

To switch on.

(figurative) To direct or move, usually of a person to a particular location.

To briefly visit.

(transitive) To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass.

To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

(transitive) To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means.

(heading) To attain, to achieve.

(transitive) To clear of contents by forcing air through.

To reach or achieve.

(transitive) To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument.

(intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.

(intransitive) To make a sound as the result of being blown.

To guess; to light upon or discover.

To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding.

(transitive) To affect negatively.

(intransitive) To burst or explode; to occur suddenly

(metaphorically) To attack.

To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed.

To make a play.

To blow from a gun.

In blackjack, to deal a card to.

(transitive) To cause the sudden destruction of.

To come up to bat.

(intransitive) To suddenly fail destructively.

(backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

To recklessly squander.

To use; to connect to.

To fail at something; to mess up; to make a mistake.

To have sex with.

To be very undesirable.

To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

To fellate; to perform oral sex on (usually a man).

(of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.

To leave, especially suddenly or in a hurry.

To work out

(transitive) To make flyblown, to defile, especially with fly eggs.

A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

(intransitive) (of a fly) To lay eggs; to breed.

Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.

(obsolete) To spread by report; to publish; to disclose.

An attack on a location, person or people.

(obsolete) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.

A collision of a projectile with the target.

(intransitive) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.

In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.

(transitive) To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue.

A match found by searching a computer system or search engine

(dated) To talk loudly; boast; brag.

(Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

To expose, or inform on.

An approximately correct answer in a test set.

To sing.

(baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

To leave the Church of Scientology in an unauthorized manner.

(colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

To flatulate or defecate.

A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.

To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.

(dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

A strong wind.

(backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.

(informal) A chance to catch one's breath.

(backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Cocaine.

Very successful.

Cannabis.

(dialectal) It.

Heroin.

It.

A blowjob; fellatio.

To reach with a stroke or blow; to strike or touch, usually with force; especially, to reach or touch (an object aimed at).

(nautical) An instance of using high-pressure air to empty water from the ballast tanks of a submarine, increasing the submarine's buoyancy and causing it to surface.

To reach or attain exactly; to meet according to the occasion; to perform successfully; to attain to; to accord with; to be conformable to; to suit.

The act of striking or hitting.

To guess; to light upon or discover.

A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.

To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; - said of a single unprotected piece on a point.

A damaging occurrence.

To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; - followed by against or on.

A cut made to a sheep's fleece by a shearer using hand-shears.

To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, - often with implied chance, or luck.

An outcrop of quartz from surrounding rock, thought to indicate mineral deposits below.

A striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

(television) button

A stroke of success in an enterprise, as by a fortunate chance; as, he made a hit;

A mass or display of flowers; a yield.

A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark; as, a happy hit.

A display of anything brilliant or bright.

A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

A bloom, state of flowering.

A striking of the ball; as, a safe hit; a foul hit; - sometimes used specifically for a base hit.

(intransitive) Used to express displeasure or frustration.

An act of murder performed for hire, esp. by a professional assassin.

Blue.

(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball);

To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

The act of contacting one thing with another;

To cause to blossom; to put forth (blossoms or flowers).

A conspicuous success;

To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.

(physics) an brief event in which two or more bodies come together;

To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.

A dose of a narcotic drug

To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.

A murder carried out by an underworld syndicate;

To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.

A connection made via the internet to another website;

To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

Cause to move by striking;

To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.

Hit against; come into sudden contact with;

To talk loudly; to boast; to storm.

Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely;

To stop functioning due to a failure in an electrical circuit, especially on which breaks the circuit; sometimes used with out; - used of light bulbs, electronic components, fuses; as, the dome light in the car blew out.

Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument;

To deflate by sudden loss of air; usually used with out; - of inflatable tires.

Reach a destination, either real or abstract;

To force a current of air upon with the mouth, or by other means; as, to blow the fire.

Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level;

To drive by a current air; to impel; as, the tempest blew the ship ashore.

Hit with a missile from a weapon

To cause air to pass through by the action of the mouth, or otherwise; to cause to sound, as a wind instrument; as, to blow a trumpet; to blow an organ; to blow a horn.

Cause to experience suddenly;

To clear of contents by forcing air through; as, to blow an egg; to blow one's nose.

Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target;

To burst, shatter, or destroy by an explosion; - usually with up, down, open, or similar adverb; as, to blow up a building.

Hit the intended target or goal

To spread by report; to publish; to disclose; to reveal, intentionally or inadvertently; as, to blow an agent's cover.

Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically;

To form by inflation; to swell by injecting air; as, to blow bubbles; to blow glass.

Encounter by chance;

To inflate, as with pride; to puff up.

Gain points in a game;

To put out of breath; to cause to blow from fatigue; as, to blow a horse.

Consume to excess;

To deposit eggs or larvæ upon, or in (meat, etc.).

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

To perform an act of fellatio on; to stimulate another's penis with one's mouth; - usually considered vulgar.

Drive something violently into a location;

To smoke (e. g. marijuana); to blow pot.

Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to;

To botch; to bungle; as, he blew his chance at a good job by showing up late for the interview.

To leave; to depart from; as, to blow town.

To squander; as, he blew his inheritance gambling.

A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms.

A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.

A sudden or forcible act or effort; an assault.

The infliction of evil; a sudden calamity; something which produces mental, physical, or financial suffering or loss (esp. when sudden); a buffet.

A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.

The act of forcing air from the mouth, or through or from some instrument; as, to give a hard blow on a whistle or horn; to give the fire a blow with the bellows.

The spouting of a whale.

A single heat or operation of the Bessemer converter.

An egg, or a larva, deposited by a fly on or in flesh, or the act of depositing it.

A powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon;

An impact (as from a collision);

An unfortunate happening that hinders of impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating

An unpleasant or disappointing surprise;

A strong current of air;

Street names for cocaine

Forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth;

Exhale hard;

Be blowing or storming;

Free of obstruction by blowing air through;

Be in motion due to some air or water current;

Make a sound as if blown;

Shape by blowing;

Make a mess of, destroy or ruin;

Spend thoughtlessly; throw away;

Spend lavishly or wastefully on;

Sound by having air expelled through a tube;

Play or sound a wind instrument;

Provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation

Cause air to go in, on, or through;

Cause to move by means of an air current;

Spout moist air from the blowhole;

Leave; informal or rude;

Lay eggs;

Cause to be revealed and jeopardized;

Show off

Allow to regain its breath;

Melt, break, or become otherwise unusable;

Burst suddenly;