Definition of "blow over" []

• To blow on something causing it to topple. (verb)
• To be knocked down by wind. (verb)
• To pass naturally; to go away; to settle or calm down. (verb)

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• "Yet she was young; at times like this, staring at herself in the ashes-of-roses dress, she wanted to feel, wanted emotion to blow over her like a strong hot wind."
• "This tormenting helplessness lasts a number of seconds, during which Rubashov moans and feels the cold wetness on his temples and the hammering on his door penetrates his sleep like a distant roll of drums; his arm under the pillow twitches in the feverish effort to find the sleeve of his dressing-gown; then at last he is released by the first smashing blow over the ear with the butt of the pistol ..."
• "But now, if he was wrong, the city would be destroyed - the statues broken, the homes razed - the dust of history-would blow over the deserted Cadmea."