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1. Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
   "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"
   - ruinous
    
2. Unpleasantly loud and penetrating
   "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"
   - blaring

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

See also: blaster, destructive, loud

Type of: blow, bomb, bombard, create, criticise [Brit], criticize, cut, dash, discharge, fire, hit, knock, make, make noise, noise, pick apart, resound, shrink, shrivel, shrivel up, smash, wither

Encyclopedia: Blast