flow away

v : flow off or away gradually; "The water drained from the

pipe" [syn: {drain}, {flow off}]

blow away

To remove (files and directories)

from permanent storage, generally by accident. "He

reformatted the wrong partition and blew away last night's

netnews".

Compare: {nuke}.

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(1996-01-05)