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Blast

noun

1.

A very long fly ball.

2.

A sudden very loud noise. Synonyms: bam, bang, clap, eruption.

3.

A strong current of air. Synonyms: blow, gust.

4.

An explosion (as of dynamite).

5.

A highly pleasurable or exciting experience. Synonym: good time. "Celebrating after the game was a blast"

6.

Intense adverse criticism. Synonyms: attack, fire, flack, flak. "The government has come under attack" , "Don't give me any flak"

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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"Blast" Quotes from Famous Books

... I knew by reputation. It was Jim Daly's notorious but decently conducted gambling establishment, which was running full blast at a time when every other institution of this character had found it ...

— Jacqueline of Golden River • H. M. Egbert

... Pile's first home, William York built a blacksmith's shop, where he mended log-wagons and did the work in wood and metal the neighborhood required. He farmed, and worked in the shop—but in his heart, always, was the call of the forests that surrounded him, and it was his one great weakness. A blast from his horn would bring his hounds yelping around him; and often, unexpectedly, he would go on a hunt that at times stretched into weeks ...

— Sergeant York And His People • Sam Cowan

... Olive, I'm tellin' you. He wanted word sent because he was in hopes that we—you and I, Mother—would take that son of his in at our house here and give him a home. The cheek of it! After what he'd done to you and me, blast him! The solid brass nerve ...

— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... Radley's room, feeling that I could blast a way through every mountain. And it was not long after he had received my mother's letter with its allusion to my lack of a father, that he addressed himself to a bigger mountain than any of these little trumpery hills that you have watched me conquering. He invited me to his ...

— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond

... she, 'I do wish somebody'd give me a lift as fur as Westmarket. I do feel's if I ought to buy me a cap. I ain't got a decent cap to my back: if I was to die to-morrow, I ain't got no cap that's fit to lay me out in.' 'Blast ye,' says he, 'why didn't ye die when ye had a cap?'" The more impassioned side of life does not suit Miss Jewett so well as the humorous and pastoral; but each detail about her heroine is attractive, and nothing in recent fiction, is ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36--New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 • Various

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