Crossword clues for blasted
blasted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blasted \Blast"ed\, a.
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Blighted; withered.
Upon this blasted heath.
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Confounded; accursed; detestable.
Some of her own blasted gypsies.
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Rent open by an explosive.
The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote.
--Wordsworth. [1913 Webster] ||
Blast \Blast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blasting.]
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To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind.
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Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
I'll cross it, though it blast me.
--Shak.Blasted with excess of light.
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To confound by a loud blast or din.
Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear.
--Shak. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stricken by malignant forces (natural or supernatural), cursed, blighted," 1550s, from blast (v.), with the notion of "balefully breathed upon." In the sense of "cursed, damned" it is attested from 1680s. Meaning "drunk or stoned" dates from 1972 (blast (v.) "smoke marijuana" attested from 1959).
Wiktionary
1 Which has been subjected to an explosion. 2 Which has been subjected to violent gusts of wind. 3 (context slang slightly dated English) accursed; damned. 4 (context heraldry English) Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless. 5 intoxicated, drunk. adv. (context euphemistic English) damned; extremely. v
(en-past of: blast)
WordNet
adj. made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape" [syn: desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted]
expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal]
Wikipedia
Blasted is the first play by British author Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London. This performance was highly controversial and the play was fiercely attacked by most newspaper critics, many of whom regarded it as a rather immature attempt to shock the audience. However, critics have subsequently reassessed it; for example The Guardian's Michael Billington, who savaged the play in his first review, later recanted in the wake of Kane's suicide: "I got it wrong, as I keep saying. She was a major talent. Apparently, Harold Pinter said at her memorial service that she was a poet, and I think that's dead right." After seeing a revival of the play, an Evening Standard reviewer wrote "How shrill and silly the 1995 hullabaloo and hysteria seemed last night when Blasted returned to the Royal Court. It is, and always was, a play with a fine, moral purpose."
Blasted is a shoot 'em up arcade game released by Bally Midway in 1988. Using your high-powered scope rifle, shoot cyborgs who have invaded an apartment complex, but be careful not to shoot the tenants or get hit by return fire. In 2-player mode, you shoot at your opponent's building and he shoots at yours.
Usage examples of "blasted".
Then the second ballista blasted lead shot into them at point-blank range, lifting three warriors from their feet and slamming them into their comrades.
We posted those blasted banns in every village of over fivescore inhabitants.
She pointed to a blasted tree beyond the rise, barkless and gnarled and twisted as if in pain.
Without the bloody, blasted beastie, they would certainly lose Talla Dileas.
And nought but gnarled roots of ancient pines Branchless and blasted, clenched with grasping roots The unwilling soil.
Flinging up his hands, he conjured a gust of murky flame that blasted toward Flax, but it was quenched in mid-flight by an equally fierce geyser of conjured water sent by the wizard.
The young girl who blasted herself to fame overnight through the good right gun arm of Northwest Smith matured to become one of the most perceptive literary artists the science-fiction world has ever known.
NPA troopers were armed with rocket and grenade launchers that blasted severed limbs and gobs of Medusan flesh across moss and boulders.
I blasted Melchoir of Brabant, Ysabeau, and do you think I have any fear of what you can say?
Vents in the ceiling sucked air out of the room, blasted it with UV, forced it through microfilters, and jetted it back.
Radescu to Colonel Hammer, standing where a granite pillar had been blasted to glittering gravel to prevent Molt warriors from materializing on top of them.
So it means the notion Molto offered two days ago which I scoffed at is actually possible: Hobie could have been the source of the very leak for which he blasted the state on the first day of the trial, the story revealing that Eddgar was the target of the shooting.
To stay in that room meant being blasted into eternity as Gordon Munn had been.
He went on, deeper into the Blasted Lands, moving with pantherine grace, yet carefully, as if avoiding seeking eyes.
Efforts are now being made to reafforest the blasted heaths of Provence.