1. an egg or larva of a fly, especially a blowfly, deposited on meat or other organic matter

1. to deposit eggs on (meat or other organic matter), as flies do
2. to contaminate or taint
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The meat was covered with flyblows after being left out in the heat.
• Flies had flyblown the fish before it could be properly stored.
• The butcher discarded the flyblown meat immediately.
• Within hours, insects began to flyblow the carcass.
• The scandal flyblew his previously spotless reputation.
• Poor storage conditions allowed flies to flyblow the entire shipment.