1. blow
They defused the bomb before it could blow up.
Blow out all the candles on the birthday cake at once.
blew; blown
Blow me down!
Isn't it better to get drunk and cut loose once in a while and blow off the tension of daily frustration?
An autumn breeze begins to blow.
Don't be so worked up over this thing. It will all blow over before you know it.
Iaido is a form of swordsmanship in which one strikes down an attacking opponent with one blow of the sword quickly drawn out of its sheath, whether the practitioner is sitting or walking.
When you blow across the top of an open bottle, it makes a noise.
Tom was dealt another emotional blow when his mother was diagnosed with breast cancer
Did you and Joan have a blow up?
Your nose is running. Blow it.
dealing a profound blow to U.S. allies and potentially deepening the president's isolation on the world stage
This optimism received a crashing blow at the hands of William Wrede in his theory of the messianic secret
2. impact
The impact was big
Because of the large scale of drones' likely impact on our society (and because we're talking about a federal bureaucracy) you can bet that it will be a few years before drones really take off commercially across the country.
The design was also given the finishing touch to have launch impact and dynamism provided by the novelty of the arch shaped logo design.
Parents saw impact of Jack`s new friends - he started to smoke and drink.
The impact of the crash reduced the car to a third of its original length. The bullet explodes on impact (= when it hits another object).
Imogen of the Internet cannot look at a cat, even a dead one, without coming up with a blood-curdlingly saccharine, egregiously misspelled caption in 60-point white Impact.
The project is well-planned and interesting, but its immediate impact on the bottom line is not considered substantial.
Considering the violence of the impact, he must have died instantly.
Forming an information infrastructure, the real impact of the information highway is an expectation of new economic development due to a shift from a tangible hardware-industry to brain-oriented software-industry.
Compared to many other countries, the average intake of trans-fats per person in Japan is low and it is hypothesized that it does not have a strong impact on health.
The impact of Emmet's theory on physics has been widely discussed, but this is not my concern in this paper.
Take a look at this. "Eh?" "There's an impact mark on the right-hand side of the bumper."
This movement has not yet achieved all its goals, but it has already had considerable impact in many areas of male-female relations.
Afterwards, because it was sanctioned by many of the successive dynasties Buddhism became widespread and had a tremendous impact on the development of Chinese thought, culture and art.
Kano, pretending to cry has impact from being used sparingly!