Word: blast Part of Speech: verb Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blasten, 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”). Pronunciation: /blɑːst/, /blæst/ 1. To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din. Labels: transitive Example: Trumpeters, / With brazen din blast you the city's ear. 2. To make a loud noise. Labels: intransitive 3. To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker. Labels: informal, transitive Example: 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." Example: There was no flutter of claws requiring me to blast a tape. 4. To shatter, as if by an explosion. Labels: transitive Example: Although Maroczy favored solid, positional chess, there were times when he changed his style and blasted his opponents' defenses to bits. 5. To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion). Labels: transitive Example: Blast right through it. 6. To curse; to damn. Labels: transitive Example: Blast it! Foiled again. 7. To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles). Labels: transitive Example: Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle. 8. To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal. Example: 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. 9. To shoot; to attack or shoot (someone or a place). Labels: ambitransitive, slang Example: They showed up blasting. Example: That's when we decided to blast him. 10. To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish. Labels: transitive Example: 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. Example: John Cassavetes and New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael have never seen eye to eye on his films. According to the director, "She's blasted every one of my films except A Woman Under the Influence, which she couldn't quite bring herself to pan because it was a story about a woman. So she blasted Gena's acting instead." 11. To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy. Labels: transitive Example: 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? Example: 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. 12. To blight or wither. Labels: transitive Example: A cold wind blasted the rose plants. 13. To be blighted or withered. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: The bud blasted in the blossom. Example: 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. 14. To blow (as, on a trumpet). Labels: intransitive, obsolete 15. To have a period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to reducing them during a cruise period. Labels: slang Example: blast and cruise 16. To cover in tattoos. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I don't have the balls to get my face blasted like a rapper.