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Blasting   /blˈæstɪŋ/   Listen
Blasting

adjective
1.
Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin.  Synonym: ruinous.  "The blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces" , "A ruinous war"
2.
Unpleasantly loud and penetrating.  Synonym: blaring.  "Shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"


Blast

verb
(past & past part. blasted; pres. part. blasting)
1.
Make a strident sound.  Synonym: blare.
2.
Hit hard.  Synonyms: boom, nail, smash.
3.
Use explosives on.  Synonym: shell.
4.
Apply a draft or strong wind to to.
5.
Create by using explosives.  Synonym: shell.
6.
Make with or as if with an explosion.
7.
Fire a shot.  Synonym: shoot.
8.
Criticize harshly or violently.  Synonyms: crucify, pillory, savage.  "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
9.
Shatter as if by explosion.  Synonym: knock down.
10.
Shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly.



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"Blasting" Quotes from Famous Books



... New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man; This was your husband.—Look you now, what follows: Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear, Blasting his wholesome brother.[124] Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor?[125] Ha! have you eyes? You cannot call it love; for, at your age The hey-day in ...
— Hamlet • William Shakespeare
... army blasting its way through Belgium with that machine to come to her rescue? No," he said; and then, starting from his moody quiet to a sudden loudness: "No! We know his price to lash this Von Specht across the face with ...
— Those Who Smiled - And Eleven Other Stories • Perceval Gibbon
... it must be confessed that the fumes of sulphurous acid, and of numerous other acids alike poisonous in their character, still taint the atmosphere of the Swansea valley, and still leave the indelible traces of their blasting properties. ...
— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 - Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 • Various
... Amigos that when an irreclaimable came their way he should be dealt handsomely by, and have the run of all the big dynamos. There should be no reserve, said the engineers, but he should have all that they had got. And what the result of that would be none could predict, save that it must be absolutely blasting and deadly. Never before had a man been so charged with electricity as they would charge him. He was to be smitten by the essence of ten thunderbolts. Some prophesied combustion, and some disintegration and disappearance. They were waiting eagerly to settle the question by actual ...
— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle
... the younger lad, not as impulsive as his brother. "They're blasting; that's what they're doing! Trying to locate a pocket of gold, I reckon. But now we're all right, Nort. They'll tell us how to get back to Diamond X, even if they can't put us on the trail of the cattle ...
— The Boy Ranchers - or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker


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