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blowed verb Past tense and past participle of blow. [DARE labels this usage "chiefly South, South Midland" in the U.S.]

1834 Crockett Narrative 150 In the morning we concluded to go on with the boat to where a great harricane crossed the river, and blowed all the timber down into it. 1864 Forgotten Ancestors (Jefferson County, TN) 1 We got back to the regiment the other morning gest as they blowed the beugle for to get up. 1939 Hall Coll (Mt Sterling NC) [The dynamite] blowed Mr. Sullivan for something like a hundred yards I suppose, slapped him up again the face of another cliff. 1973 GSMNP-80:6 The wind blowed a sight in the world hard up there. 1980 Miles Verbs Haywood Co 88 And the snow had blowed in the door. 1998 Dante OHP-24 It’s a wonder a lot of people hadn’t got blowed up and killed.