hard, heavy, nasty, painful, powerful, severe, sharp, stinging, violent
deadly, fatal, final, mortal
physical
glancing, light
Jack caught him a glancing blow on the jaw.

single
He killed the man with a single blow of the hammer.

flurry

get, receive, suffer, take
He suffered a severe blow to the head.

catch sb, deal sb, deliver, give sb, land, rain (down), strike sb
It was the gardener who delivered the fatal blow.
She landed a nasty blow on his nose.
He rained heavy blows on the old woman.

exchange
The demonstrators exchanged blows with the police.

aim
She aimed a blow at Lucy.

avoid, block, deflect, dodge, parry, ward off
feel
He felt a stinging blow across the side of his face.

fall, land
The blow landed on my right shoulder.

knock sb down, over, etc.
The blow knocked him to the ground.

knock sb out

blow of
two blows of the hammer

blow on
a nasty blow on the head

blow to
a blow to the victim's chest

come to blows
The children came to blows over the new toy.

the force of the blow
The force of the blow knocked him out.

big, great, huge, major, serious, severe, terrible
bitter, crippling, cruel, crushing, devastating, knockout
double
decisive, mortal
a mortal blow to local industry

body

deal (sb/sth), deliver, strike
His defeat dealt a crushing blow to the party.

receive, suffer
cushion, soften
to soften the blow of tax increases

come as
The news came as a bitter blow to the staff.

come, fall
The blow came at a meeting yesterday.

blow for
A tax on books would be a body blow for education.

blow to
Her decision to leave home was a terrible blow to her parents.

a bit of a blow (esp. BrE)

hard, strongly
gently

from
a gale blowing from the west

off
The wind blew the papers off the table.

blow sth off course
The ship was blown off course in the storm.

see which way the wind is blowing (figurative)
They won't commit themselves until they see which way the wind is blowing.

hard
softly

on
He blew on his soup to cool it.

Blow is used with these nouns as the subject:
air, blast, blizzard, breeze, curtain, draught, dust, fan, fuse, gale, hurricane, leaf, sand, tyre, whale, whistle, wind

Blow is used with these nouns as the object:
air, bang, blizzard, bubble, budget, chance, cover, dust, fuse, glass, hole, horn, kiss, knee, mind, nose, smoke, snow, trumpet, tyre, whistle