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Definition of blasting



Overview of verb blast

The verb blast has 10 senses? (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (3) blast, blare

(make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone")

2. (2) smash, nail, boom, blast

(hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer")

3. (1) blast, shell

(use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day")

4. blast

(apply a draft or strong wind to to; "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us")

5. blast, shell

(create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain")

6. blast

(make with or as if with an explosion; "blast a tunnel through the Alps")

7. blast, shoot

(fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away")

8. savage, blast, pillory, crucify

(criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage")

9. blast, knock down

(shatter as if by explosion)

10. blast

(shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly)


Overview of adj blasting

The adj blasting has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) blasting, ruinous

(causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war")

2. blaring, blasting

(unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio")