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blasted adjective [ ˈblɑːstɪd ]

• used to express annoyance.
• "make your own blasted coffee!"
Similar: damned, damn, blessed, flaming, precious, confounded, pestilential, rotten, wretched, flipping, blinking, blooming, blimming, bloody, bleeding, effing, chuffing, goddam, plurry, bally, ruddy, deuced, cursed, accursed, damnable, fucking, frigging, sodding, fecking,
• withered or blighted; laid waste.
• "a blasted heath"
• drunk.
• "I got really blasted"

blast verb

• blow up or break apart (something solid) with explosives.
• "the school was blasted by an explosion"
Similar: blow up, bomb, blow (to pieces), dynamite, explode, break up, demolish, raze to the ground, destroy, ruin, shatter,
• be very loud; make a loud noise.
• "music was blasting from the speakers"
Similar: honk, sound loudly, trumpet, blare, boom, roar, thunder, bellow, pump, shriek, screech,
• kick or strike (a ball) hard.
• "the striker blasted the free kick into the net"
• criticize fiercely.
Similar: reprimand, rebuke, criticize, upbraid, berate, castigate, reprove, rail at, flay,
• (of a wind or other natural force) wither, shrivel, or blight (a plant).
• "corn blasted before it be grown up"
Similar: blight, kill, destroy, wither, shrivel,
Origin: Old English blǣst, of Germanic origin; related to blaze3.


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