blast /bläst/

1. A blowing or gust of wind
2. A forcible stream of air
3. A sound of a wind instrument, car horn, etc
4. An explosion or detonation
5. A shock-wave of air caused by this
6. An enjoyable or exciting event or occasion, esp a party (slang, esp N American)
7. A blight
8. A violent verbal outpouring
9. Any scorching, withering or pernicious influence
10. An explosion shot (qv under explode)

1. To emit blasts
2. To use explosives
3. To move swiftly and forcefully (informal)
4. To swell (dialect)
5. To wither (obsolete)
6. To curse
7. To smoke marijuana (slang)

1. To blow up, destroy or damage with explosives
2. To create (a cavity, etc) with explosives
3. To inflate (dialect)
4. To strike powerfully
5. To strike with a blast
6. To blight, wither or scorch (crops, etc; also figurative)
7. To strike with a curse, to curse, to attack vituperatively

Expressing irritation or annoyance

blastˈed adjective

1. Blighted
2. Cursed, damned (often as an intensifier)
3. Thoroughly intoxicated by drink or drugs (slang)

blastˈer noun

1. A person or thing that blasts
2. A sand-wedge (golf)

blastˈing noun and adjective

blastˈment noun (Shakespeare)

Blight

blastˈ-freezing noun

A process of freezing food by means of a current of intensely cold air

blast furnace noun

A smelting furnace into which hot air is blown

blastˈ-furnaceman noun

blastˈ-hole noun

A hole in the bottom of a pump through which water enters

blastˈ-off noun

The (moment of) launching of a rocket-propelled missile or space capsule (blast off transitive verb and intransitive verb)

blastˈ-pipe noun

A pipe in a steam-engine, to convey the waste steam up the chimney

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