1. blow away - Verb
2. blow away - Phrase
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
(transitive) To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
He blew away the dust which had collected on the book.
(intransitive) To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
I didn't have to rake. The leaves just blew away.
(transitive, idiomatic) To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
The kid just blew the clerk away.
(transitive, idiomatic, US) To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
The critics were blown away by their latest album.
(transitive) To overwhelm.
(transitive) To cause to go away, to get rid of
(transitive, computing, informal) To delete (data, files, etc.).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWe write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind. Paolo Bacigalupi
Living on silence, Living by the book. You get it to a science Of living on one good look. So put out all the fires And blow away the smoke. I'm getting pretty tired Of living on hope. Aimee Mann
If you let them make you, They'll make you paper mache. At a distance, you're strong, until the wind comes Then you crumble and blow away. Brandon Boyd
If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness. Vusi Mahlasela
Biology is truly a land of unlimited possibilities. We may expect it to give us the most surprising information, and we cannot guess what answers it will return in a few dozen years. ...They may be of a kind which will blow away the whole of our artificial structure of hypothesis. Sigmund Freud
When a company identifies how to integrate the processes needed to give the consumer a sense of job completion, it can blow away the competition. A product is easy to copy, but experiences are very hard to replicate. Clayton Christensen