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by-blow

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoresonnoun

    the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

Wiktionary

  1. by-blownoun

    A blow struck to the side or from the side, as in swordplay; a secondary or incidental strike of any sort.

  2. by-blownoun

    An illegitimate child; a child of an unknown or unmarried father.

Webster Dictionary

  1. By-blownoun

    a side or incidental blow; an accidental blow

  2. By-blownoun

    an illegitimate child; a bastard

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Anagrams for by-blow »

  1. blow-by

  2. blowby

  3. Wobbly

  4. wobbly

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of by-blow in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of by-blow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of by-blow in a Sentence

  1. Arthur Miller:

    Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

  2. Dmitry Slaboda:

    The fight broke out because of that blow, we just wanted to show them that there is no room here for Navalny who lives on American money.

  3. George Clooney:

    I don't remember what awards Lauren Bacall won, I just remember her saying: 'You know how to whistle, don't you Steve. You just put your lips together and blow.'.

  4. Ilhan Omar:

    Kevin McCarthy’s purely partisan moves to strip us from our committee is not only a political stunt, but also a blow to the integrity of our democratic institution and threat to our national security.

  5. Liz Cheney:

    This is a man who has demonstrated that Donald Trump's at war with the rule of law. He's demonstrated that he's willing to blow through every guardrail of democracy.


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