blast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bläst
ipa: /blɑːst/
enpr: blăst
ipa: /blæst/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: blasts
form: blasting
form: blasted
form: blasted
Etymology: From Middle English blasten, blesten, from Old English blǣstan (“to blow, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blēstijan, from Proto-Germanic *blēstijaną. Possibly related to Middle High German blesten (“to stand out, plop, splash”).
Senses: examples: text: Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene viii]:
glosses: To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
glosses: To make a loud noise.
examples: text: Some kid is in his car blasting rap. You know, bass in the trunk and you can hear it 4 blocks away? I signal over to him and say "Hey, turn it up, I can't hear it." He turns around and says, "Shut Up Grandpa."
ref: 2008 April 24, neilc...@yahoo.com, “ARRMO FEST”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool (Usenet):
glosses: To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
glosses: To shatter, as if by an explosion.
examples: text: Blast right through it.
glosses: To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
examples: text: Blast it! Foiled again.
glosses: To curse; to damn.
examples: text: Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
examples: text: A Ricketts and Stuart Holden one-two around the box then created a decent chance for an almost instant equaliser - but Welsh full-back Ricketts blasted over when a calmer finish could have been rewarded.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
examples: text: They showed up blasting.
text: That's when we decided to blast him.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To shoot; to attack or shoot (someone or a place).
examples: text: 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.
text: Mark Pritchard, a Tory member of Parliament, blasted the show for treating a somber subject as “a matter of fun.”
ref: 2014 March 27, Robin Marantz Henig, “Fictional Plotlines and Real Assisted Suicide”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: word: animadvert
word: admonish
word: bash
word: bawl out
word: blast
word: derogate
word: berate
word: berisp
word: castigate
word: censure
word: chastise
word: chew out
word: chide
word: condemn
word: criticize
word: denounce
word: denunciate
word: drag
word: dress down
word: eat someone alive
word: excoriate
word: find fault
word: fulminate
word: get down
word: get up
word: give somebody a piece of one's mind
word: give somebody what-for
word: inveigh
word: lace into
word: lambaste
word: lay into
word: lecture
word: light into
word: objurgate
word: pooh-pooh
word: put someone on blast
word: rate
word: read somebody the riot act
word: rebuke
word: reprehend
word: reprimand
word: reproach
word: reprove
word: rip into
word: rubbish
word: savage
word: scold
word: slam
word: tear into
word: tell off
word: threap
word: tick off
word: tosh
word: keelhaul
word: upbraid
word: vilify
word: vituperate
glosses: To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
examples: text: Oh Portius, is there not some choſen Curſe,
Some hidden Thunder in the Stores of Heav’n,
Red with uncommon Wrath, to blaſt the Man
Who owes his Greatneſs to his Country’s Ruin?
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:
text: Both Leo and myself rushed to her - she was stone dead - blasted into death by some mysterious electric agency or overwhelming will-force whereof the dread She had command.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
examples: text: A cold wind blasted the rose plants.
glosses: To blight or wither.
examples: text: The bud blasted in the blossom.
text: Tell age it daily wasteth;
tell honour how it alters;
Tell beauty how she blasteth;
tell fauour how it falters:
And as they shall reply,
giue euery one the lye.
ref: c. 1592, Walter Raleigh, “The Lie”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), published 1608:
glosses: To be blighted or withered.
glosses: To blow, for example on a trumpet.
examples: text: blast and cruise
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: cruise
glosses: To have a period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to reducing them during a cruise period.
Derived terms: beblast
blastable
blast away
blaster
blasthole
blasting gelatin
blasting gelatine
blastissimo
blast off
blastor
blast out
blast up
blastworthy
ghetto blaster
ghettoblaster
reblast
sandblast
shotblast
shot blasting
upblast