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Definition of Blast

Blast A violent gust of wind. A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast. The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast. The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath. A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight. The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose. A flatulent disease of sheep. 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. 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. To confound by a loud blast or din. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. Related Definitions: Act, Affect, Agent, Air, Also, An, And, Any, As, At, Attempting, Be, Bellows, Blast, Blasted, Blight, Blighted, Blighting, Blossom, Blow, Blowing, Boiler, Breath, Bud, By, Calamity, Cause, Character, Charge, Check, Chimney, Column, Confound, Continuous, Creating, Curse, Din, Disease, Draught, Driving, Dynamite, Earth, Effect, Engine, Especially, Exhaust, Explosion, Explosive, Fail, Fire, Flatulent, For, Forcible, From, Furnace, Growth, Gunpowder, Gust, Heavy, Hence, If, In, Influence, Injure, Instrument, Intense, Iron, Is, Loud, Made, Many, Melt, Metal, Mouth, Noxious, Of, On, One, Open, Or, Ore, Orifice, Out, Pernicious, Plague, Prevent, Pride, Produced, Purpose, Rend, Rending, Rock, Ruin, Shatter, Sheep, Shrivel, So, Some, Sound, Steam, Stop, Stream, Strictly, Subjected, Sudden, The, This, Through, Thus, To, Trumpet, Used, Violence, Violent, Visit, Which, Wind, With, Wither, Withered

Blast Quotations Have a blast while you last. Hollis Stacy Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! Joseph Addison What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore. Madeleine Albright Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. Dante Alighieri I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. Mike Myers

Blast Translations blast in Italian is esplosione blast in Latin is inflatus, flatus

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