blast
/blæst/ verb C2- To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
- To make a loud noise.
- To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
- To shatter, as if by an explosion.
- To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion). · Blast right through it.
- To curse; to damn. · Blast it! Foiled again.
- To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles). · Chewbacca blasted the Stormtroopers with his laser rifle.
- To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
He/she/it blasts · Past blasted · Past participle blasted · -ing form blasting
Verb forms
- Base form
- blast
- He/she/it
- blasts
- Past
- blasted
- Past participle
- blasted
- -ing form
- blasting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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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.
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.
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.
“It is not so much the loss of the money that vexes me,” said Villefort, “though, after all, 900,000 francs are worth regretting; but I am the more annoyed with this fate, chance, or whatever you please to call the power which has destroyed my hopes and my fortune, and may blast the prospects of my child also, as it is all occasioned by an old man relapsed into second childhood.”
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