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Persian Learner Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
The meaning of blow over in this sentence
Hi.
The story was in the newspapers for a while, but it soon blew over and nobody heard anything more about it.
What other word/words can I use instead of blow over without loosing any meaning?
The story was in the newspapers for a while, but it soon blew over and nobody heard anything more about it.
What other word/words can I use instead of blow over without loosing any meaning?
Top answer
Faded away, subsided, or dwindled
- Faded away, subsided, or dwindled
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Yes, it means diminished.
It started off as a literal reference to storms, but now it's also used figuratively (as in your example).
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/blow-over
It started off as a literal reference to storms, but now it's also used figuratively (as in your example).
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/blow-over
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