Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Used as an intensive.
- adjective Slang Drunk or intoxicated.
- adjective Blighted, withered, or shriveled.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Confounded; execrable; detestable: used as a milder form of imprecation than damned.
- In heraldry, deprived of leaves: said of a tree or a branch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Blighted; withered.
- adjective Confounded; accursed; detestable.
- adjective Rent open by an explosive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
blast . - adjective Which has been subjected to an
explosion . - adjective slang, slightly dated
Accursed ;damned . - adjective heraldry Whose
branches bear noleaves ;leafless . - adverb euphemistic
Damned ;extremely .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expletives used informally as intensifiers
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Examples
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Since we were blasted with snow last night, this means that we're prolly gonna get * blasted* tonight.
qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2003
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His name blasted through her mind, and she recalled that she was here to hunt.
Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010
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His name blasted through her mind, and she recalled that she was here to hunt.
Ecstasy in Darkness Gena Showalter 2010
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The second saw his ashes blasted from a cannon, paid for by Johnny Depp, into the canyon behind his ranch.
The gonzo guide to Aspen Sam Haddad 2010
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Legal wrangling over the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy continued Monday, as the group suing to end it once again blasted the Obama administration's defense of the policy and another gay rights organization said the ban is indirectly responsible for the recent wave of suicides by gay teenagers.
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We cannot see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth.
No to the Nazis 2009
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Also, with actual samples in pretty fair bulk in hand, we can determine the origin of meteorites that have also been blasted from the Moon that have landed on the Earth.
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On Sunday, Williams appeared on "Fox News Sunday" and again blasted NPR for its decision.
NPR President Apologizes For Handling Of Juan Williams Firing The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We cannot see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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I will then be blasted from the barrels of my favorite shotguns during the upland and waterfowl seasons.
My Green Funeral 2009
brtom commented on the word blasted
O Fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted Milton, On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough
December 15, 2006