blast

Plural: blasts

Noun

• a very long fly ball
• a sudden very loud noise
• a strong current of air
• an explosion (as of dynamite)
• a highly pleasurable or exciting experience
  • "celebrating after the game was a blast"
• intense adverse criticism
• A violent gust of wind (in windy weather) or apparent wind (around a moving vehicle).
• A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the tuyeres of a blast furnace, a person's mouth, etc.
• A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
• The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
• The exhaust steam from an 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.
• An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
• A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.
• An explosive charge for blasting.
• A loud, sudden sound.
• Unwanted noise from a microphone.
• A sudden pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
• A good time; an enjoyable moment.
• A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
• A flatulent disease of sheep.
• A period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.
• An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).

Verb

Verb Forms: blasted, blasting, blasts

• To destroy or break apart using an explosive or sudden force.
• make a strident sound
  • "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
• hit hard
• use explosives on
• apply a draft or strong wind to to
  • "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us"
• create by using explosives
  • "blast a passage through the mountain"
• make with or as if with an explosion
  • "blast a tunnel through the Alps"
• fire a shot
  • "the gunman blasted away"
• criticize harshly or violently
• shatter as if by explosion
• shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
• To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
• To make a loud noise.
• To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
• To shatter, as if by an explosion.
• To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
• To curse; to damn.
• To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
• To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
• To shoot; to attack or shoot (someone or a place).
• To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
• To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
• To blight or wither.
• To be blighted or withered.
• To blow, for example on a trumpet.
• To have a period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to reducing them during a cruise period.
• To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).

Intj

• Used to show anger or disappointment: damn

Examples

• A cold wind blasted the rose plants.
• an e-mail blast; a fax blast
• arc blast
• blast and cruise
• Blast it! Foiled again.
• Blast right through it.
• Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.
• Many tons of iron were melted at a blast.
• My manager gave me a blast yesterday for coming in late.
• My manager suddenly blasted me yesterday for being a little late to work for five days in a row, because I was never getting myself up on time.
• That's when we decided to blast him.
• The bingo ’EXPLODED’ seemed to BLAST away his opponent’s lead in Words With Friends.
• The bud blasted in the blossom.
• They showed up blasting.
• We had a blast at the party last night.

Synonyms

attack, bam, bang, blare, blow, boom, clap, crucify, eruption, fire, flack, flak, good time, gust, knock down, nail, pillory, savage, shell, shoot, smash, admonish, animadvert, bash, bawl out, berate, berisp, blast, castigate, censure, chastise, chew out, chide, condemn, criticize, denounce, denunciate, drag, dress down, eat someone alive, excoriate, find fault, fulminate, get down, get up, give somebody a piece of one's mind, give somebody what-for, inveigh, lace into, lambaste, lecture, light into, objurgate, pooh-pooh, put someone on blast, rate, read somebody the riot act, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, rip into, rubbish, scold, slam, tear into, tell off, threap, tick off, tosh, upbraid, vilify, vituperate

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