Overview of verb blast

The verb blast has 10 senses

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


• smash, nail, boom, blast -- (hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer")


• blast, shell -- (use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day")


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


• blast, shell -- (create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain")


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


• blast, shoot -- (fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away")


• savage, blast, pillory, crucify -- (criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage")


• blast, knock down -- (shatter as if by explosion)


• blast -- (shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly)

Overview of adj blasted

The adj blasted has 1 sense

• blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal -- (expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance")