Crossword clues for blasting
blasting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blasting \Blast"ing\, n.
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A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.
I have smitten you with blasting and mildew.
--Amos iv. 9. The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A planned explosion, as in mining. 2 The act by which something is blasted, or blighted. vb. (present participle of blast English)
WordNet
adj. causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war" [syn: ruinous]
unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio" [syn: blaring]
Wikipedia
Blasting can be:
- Abrasive blasting
- Blast furnace
- Rock blasting
Usage examples of "blasting".
One box contained black blasting powder, another beehive blocks of amatol explosive and a drum of .
Sergeant Blane leapt in with his platoon and sealed the event, blasting left and right with his lasgun as his men charged, bayonets first.
The musicians were doing a blasting oom-pah-pah of brassy Bavarian folk music, and the girls, although they were cavorting on soft sawdust, contributed to the noise with the repeated thigh-slapping that the dance demanded.
It was an inexact method of detonation, but Brine had no access to blasting caps at this hour of the morning.
For a moment Dasaratha thought he was about to sketch a mantra in the air, blasting the second Vishwamitra to ashes, proving his own authenticity.
Rather, it was a lightning bolt blasting the moonscape, melting the regolith and its underlying rock, crushing the mantle, vaporizing everything within hundreds of kilometers of ground zero.
He was watching the immolation of pockets of reserved fuel, each one blasting past the reformatted hull, burning off swaths of philosopher cells, torching all the information they contained.
All he had to show for five years of digging and blasting is that resultless hole there and those damned upper chambers.
He shrieks, clutches his head, throws on wrinkled clothes, ties his shoes in the elevator, shaves in the car, blasting through red lights on the way to the commuter rail.
It showed the Supernaturalists blasting Parasites on top of the Stromberg Building, in glorious true-tone colour.
Whatever the vessel was, she landed neatly in the clear area The Dove came down in an orange fireball fifty meters witin the margin of the forest, blasting splinters in every direction.
I informed Lieutenant Alima that a freighter owned by Han Solo would be blasting out of here with two droids as its primary cargo.
They, too, had attributed the blasting to a stump operation on the Beaverwood grounds.
Samson stood in the middle of the breach, ignoring the gunfire from the enemy on the ground, and cut loose with his Bushmaster, catching the troopers on the ladders in a hail of lead, blasting them from the ladders and checking the assault.
In the lower depths, in the peaceful apartments of Ceres, the noise of blasting battle sounded.