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• WordNet 3.6
  • v blast shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
  • v blast shatter as if by explosion
  • v blast criticize harshly or violently "The press savaged the new President","The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
  • v blast fire a shot "the gunman blasted away"
  • v blast use explosives on "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
  • v blast hit hard "He smashed a 3-run homer"
  • v blast make with or as if with an explosion "blast a tunnel through the Alps"
  • v blast create by using explosives "blast a passage through the mountain"
  • v blast apply a draft or strong wind to to "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us"
  • v blast make a strident sound "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
  • n blast a very long fly ball
  • n blast intense adverse criticism "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party","the government has come under attack","don't give me any flak"
  • n blast a highly pleasurable or exciting experience "we had a good time at the party","celebrating after the game was a blast"
  • n blast a sudden very loud noise
  • n blast an explosion (as of dynamite)
  • n blast a strong current of air "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"
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• Interesting fact: Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away
• • Blast A flatulent disease of sheep.
  • Blast A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast .
  • Blast A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight. "By the blast of God they perish.""Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast ."
  • Blast A violent gust of wind. "And see where surly Winter passes off,
    Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts ;
    His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill."
  • Blast Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character. "I'll cross it, though it blast me.""Blasted with excess of light."
  • Blast The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose. "Large blasts are often used."
  • Blast The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
  • Blast The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath. "One blast upon his bugle horn
    Were worth a thousand men.""The blast of triumph o'er thy grave."
  • Blast To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
  • Blast To blow; to blow on a trumpet. "Toke his blake trumpe faste
    And gan to puffen and to blaste ."
  • Blast To confound by a loud blast or din. "Trumpeters,
    With brazen din blast you the city's ear."
  • Blast To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel. "Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind."
  • Blast To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
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• Interesting fact: In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him
• • n blast A subtle kind of matter supposed by Van Helmont, a Dutch mystic philosopher, to be radiated from the stars and to produce effects opposite to those of heat.
  • n blast A blowing; a gust or puff of wind; especially, a strong and sudden gust.
  • n blast A forcible stream of air from the mouth, from bellows, or the like.
  • n blast Hence A jet of exhaust-steam thrown into a smoke-stack to assist the draft.
  • n blast In metallurgy, the air forced into a furnace for the purpose of accelerating combustion. A furnace is said to be in blast when it is in operation, out of blast when stopped, either temporarily or permanently.
  • n blast The sound made by blowing a wind-instrument, as a horn or trumpet; strictly, the sound produced by one breath.
  • n blast Any sudden, pernicious, or destructive influence upon animals or plants; the infection of anything pestilential; a blight.
  • n blast Hence—7. Any withering or destructive influence; a curse.
  • n blast The product of a blast or blight; a bud which never blossoms.
  • n blast The charge of gunpowder or other explosive used at one firing in blasting operations.
  • n blast The explosion of inflammable air in a mine.
  • n blast A flatulent disease in sheep.
  • n blast A smoke of tobacco.
  • n blast Synonyms Gust, etc. See wind, n.
  • blast To blow; puff; breathe hard; pant.
  • blast To smoke tobacco.
  • blast To boast; brag; speak ostentatiously.
  • blast To wither; be blighted.
  • blast To burst as by an explosion; blow up.
  • blast To blow forth or abroad; hence, to utter loudly; proclaim.
  • blast To break or tear to pieces (rocks or similar materials) by the agency of gunpowder or other explosive. In the ordinary operations of mining the rocks are attacked, or broken into fragments of manageable size, by blasting.
  • blast To confound or stun by a loud blast or din; split; burst.
  • blast To blow or breathe on so as to injure, as a sudden gust or destructive wind; cause to fade, shrivel, or wither; check the growth of and prevent from coming to maturity and producing fruit; blight, as trees or plants.
  • blast To blight or cause to come to nothing, as by some pernicious influence; bring destruction, calamity, or infamy upon; ruin: as, to blast pride, hopes, reputation, happiness.
  • blast To curse; strike with the wrath of heaven.
  • blast See blasto-.
  • n blast In mining, a fall of water down a mine-shaft designed to produce or quicken ventilation.
  • n blast In the West Indies, a disease of the sugar-cane, probably caused by an acarid now known as the sugar-cane mite. The species is still unde-scribed.
  • n blast In zoology, one of the spindle-shaped, spore-like bodies in the life-cycle of certain Sporozoa, such as the malarial parasite.
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• • n Blast blast a blowing or gust of wind: a forcible stream of air: sound of a wind instrument; an explosion of gunpowder: anything pernicious
  • v.t Blast to strike with some pernicious influence, to blight: to affect with sudden violence or calamity: to rend asunder with gunpowder
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• William Penn

  

  “The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.”
• Charles Swindoll

  

  “Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.”
• Desiderius Erasmus

  

  “They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.”
• Dylan Thomas

  

  “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.”
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  “Patience is counting down without blasting off”
• Mary Elizabeth Hewitt

  

  “A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast.”

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