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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
blasting
    adj 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"; "the blasting
           force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our
           faces"; "a ruinous war" [syn: blasting, ruinous]
    2: unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of
       trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his
       car radio" [syn: blaring, blasting]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Blast \Blast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Blasting.]
   1. 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.
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            Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind.
                                                  --Gen. xii. 6.
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   2. 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.
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            I'll cross it, though it blast me.    --Shak.
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            Blasted with excess of light.         --T. Gray.
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   3. To confound by a loud blast or din.
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            Trumpeters,
            With brazen din blast you the city's ear. --Shak.
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   4. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder,
      dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Blasting \Blast"ing\, n.
   1. A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious
      cause.
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            I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. --Amos
                                                  iv. 9.
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   2. The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the
      business of one who blasts.
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Thesaurus Results for blasting:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
atmospherics, banging, blaring, blind spot, bursting, cracking, crashing, crawling, creeping, drift, exploding, explosive, fade-out, fading, flapping, interference, knocking, noise, popping, rapping, reception, slapping, slatting, static, tapping
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