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Verb: blast  blăst
  1. Make a strident sound
    "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
    - blare
     
  2. Hit hard
    - smash, nail, boom
     
  3. Use explosives on
    - shell
     
  4. Apply a draft or strong wind to to
    "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us"
     
  5. Create by using explosives
    "blast a passage through the mountain"
    - shell
     
  6. Make with or as if with an explosion
    "blast a tunnel through the Alps"
     
  7. Fire a shot
    "the gunman blasted away"
    - shoot
     
  8. Criticize harshly or violently
    - savage, pillory, crucify
     
  9. Shatter as if by explosion
    - knock down
     
  10. Shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
Noun: blast  blăst
  1. A very long fly ball
     
  2. A sudden very loud noise
    - bang, clap, eruption, bam
     
  3. A strong current of air
    - gust, blow
     
  4. An explosion (as of dynamite)
     
  5. A highly pleasurable or exciting experience
    "celebrating after the game was a blast"
    - good time, crack [Ireland], craic [Ireland]
     
  6. Intense adverse criticism
    - fire, attack, flak, flack
Interjection: blast  blăst
  1. Exclamation of annoyance
    - botheration, bummer, curses, dang [N. Amer], damn, damnation, dammit, damn it, darn, durn [US, dialect], drat, hang

Derived forms: blasts, blasting, blasted

See also: blaster

Type of: air current, blow, blowup, bomb, bombard, create, criticise [Brit], criticism, criticize, current of air, cut, dash, detonation, discharge, experience, explosion, fire, fly, fly ball, hit, knock, make, make noise, noise, pick apart, resound, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, smash, unfavorable judgment [US], unfavourable judgment [Brit, Cdn], wind, wither

Encyclopedia: Blast