Blow
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A strong wind. A chance to catch one's breath. Cocaine. The act of striking or hitting. An unfortunate occurrence. A mass or display of flowers; a yield. A display of anything brilliant or bright. A bloom, state of flowering.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To produce an air current. To propel by an air current. To be propelled by an air current. To create or shape by blowing; as in to blow bubbles, to blow glass. To cause to make sound by blowing, as a musical instrument. To play a musical instrument, such as a horn or woodwind. To make a sound as the result of being blown. To exhale visibly through the spout the seawater which it has taken in while feeding. To explode. To cause to explode, shatter, or be utterly destroyed. To cause sudden destruction of. To suddenly fail destructively. To destroy (an electric component) by passing excessive electric current through it. To be destroyed by such a current. To be very undesirable (see also suck). To recklessly squander. To fellate. To leave. To blossom; to cause to bloom or blossom.
Example sentence: To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Squander
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To waste, lavish, splurge
Example sentence: I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.