Blow
How words are described
| emotional | emotional blow | emotional push |
| good | good blow | good push |
| physical | physical blow | physical push |
| gentle | gentle blow | gentle push |
| Other adjectives: low, solid, single, simple, heavy, strong, powerful, actual, real, massive, large, big, great, serious, huge, quick, decent, major, final, decisive, accidental, significant, next, last, biggest. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Instead of propelling a projectile, they create a variable push (from "slam a Mook against a wall" to "blow a hole in a mountain").
Source: Comicbook / Iron Man - Blow You Away: There are fans in Weather Man's stage which can push Mega Man upwards, downwards, and away.
- This is particularly noticeable in payload maps, where BLU is trying to push a cart with a huge bomb on it to blow up RED base and weapons stockpile.
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Push and Blow. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/blow/push
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