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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";
   - 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 with great force
   "He blasted a 3-run homer";
   - smash, nail, boom
    
3. Use explosives on
   "The enemy has been blasting us all day";
   - shell
    
4. Blow a strong draft or wind
   "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; release
   "the gunman blasted away";
   - shoot
    
8. [informal] Criticize harshly or violently
   "The press blasted the new President";
   - savage, pillory, crucify
    
9. Shatter as if by explosion
   - knock down
    
10. Shrivel, wither or mature imperfectly

See also: destructive, loud

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

Encyclopedia: Blasting