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Definition

To destroy the integrity or cohesion of.

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In Context

  • "That one small confession to a man she barely knew blew a hole through her emotional dam and everything she'd held back for the last week flooded out."
  • "'By taking down the towers, Sept 11 blew a hole through the errors of the past."
  • "Unless the letters were fake, they blew a hole through Martha's story."
  • "By rolling into the city that Vladimir Putin still claimed as his own, the leader of Ukraine would blow a hole through the stories of conquest and imperial glory that Russian propagandists had been using for months to justify the war."