1 to blow

2 to play a wind instrument

3 to blast

4 to puff

5 to boast

6 to brag

7 to end in failure

8 to fall through

1 ash

2 dust

3 lime

4 gray

5 discouraged

6 dejected

1 gray

2 ash gray

3 grizzly

4 pessimistic

5 gloomy

6 dispirited

7 ambiguous

1 to blow-dry

1 to blow cold

2 damping expectations by discouraging or realistic words

1 What brings you here? (idiom)

1 lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom); fig. to be fastidious

2 nitpick

1 lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom)

2 fig. to die

3 to bite the dust

4 to be over and done with

1 lit. ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence

2 sth malevolent returns to haunt one

1 gloomy and dull (idiom)

2 boring and gray

3 unpleasantly murky