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blast

/blæst/ verb B2
  1. To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). (informal, transitive)

He/she/it blasts · Past blasted · Past participle blasted · -ing form blasting

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Verb forms

Base form
blast
He/she/it
blasts
Past
blasted
Past participle
blasted
-ing form
blasting

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It is possible even that you may have heard that through my uncle’s influence I obtained a good appointment at the Foreign Office, and that I was in a situation of trust and honour until a horrible misfortune came suddenly to blast my career.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 57 · B2
We had hardly time to take our place behind a pile of luggage when it passed with a rattle and a roar, beating a blast of hot air into our faces.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 117 · B2
Bingley from your sister,--and the other, that I had, in defiance of various claims, in defiance of honour and humanity, ruined the immediate prosperity and blasted the prospects of Mr.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 228 · B2
Now, the poor lass upstairs was like to have her wits turned at the singing and shouting and terrible oaths which came up to her from below, for they say that the words used by Hugo Baskerville, when he was in wine, were such as might blast the man who said them.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 11 · C1

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