blastn.1
/blɑːst/, /blast/, U.S. /blæst/ 1. A blowing or strong gust of wind.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of
ghosteOE
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blas?c1225
ragec1405
blorec1440
flaw1513
thud1513
flaga1522
fuddera1522
flake1555
flan1572
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flirta1592
gust1594
berry1598
wind-catch1610
snuff1613
stress1625
flash1653
blow1655
fresh1662
scud1694
flurry1698
gush1704
flam1711
waff1727
flawer1737
Roger's Blasta1825
flaff1827
slat1840
scart1861
rodges-blast1879
huffle1889
slap1890
slammer1891
Sir Roger1893
the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > a blast or puff of air
blasta1000
pufflOE
huff1600
waft1650
waff1674
a1000 Cædmon's Ex. (Gr.) 290 Sæ grundas suþ wind fornam bæþweges blæst.
a1300 in Wright Pop. Treat. Sc. 136 A dunt other a blast of grete miȝte.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 203 Be zuych blest and be zuych wynd.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1338 Reed that boweth dowen with every blaste.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 38 Blaste of wynde, flatus.
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 34 Two March blasts.
1621 Knolles's Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 3) 1336 Those that fortune aduanceth by the fauour of her blastes.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 59 Frosts and Snows, and bitter Blasts . View more context for this quotation
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxiv. 132 Broken by the blast of a hurricane.
1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. iii. 184 Blown by the blast of fate like a dead leaf over the desert.
2. † b. Angry breath, rage. Obsolete.
a. A puff or blowing of air through the mouth or nostrils; a breath. Obsolete or archaic.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > [noun] > breath
ghosteOE
bleadc890
ethemeOE
windOE
fnastc1000
breathOE
blas?c1225
blasta1325
andec1330
respiration?a1425
breast1535
air1567
respirea1657
puff1827
the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > a blast or puff of air > from mouth or nostrils
blasta1325
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 201 His licham of erðe he nam, And blew ðor-in a liues blast.
c1325 Coer de L. 1779 Unnethe he might draw his blast.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) I. 223 A lanterne brennynge alway, þat no man couthe quenche wiþ blast noþer wiþ water.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 567 As when we breathe, we make a blast.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. xv. 8 With the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together. View more context for this quotation
1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. ii. xxvi. 276 Breathing his last blast.
1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (1742) III. 304 The empty blast of popular favor.
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the mind > emotion > anger > [noun]
irrec825
gramec1000
brathc1175
wrathc1175
mooda1225
ortha1225
felonyc1290
irea1300
greme13..
thro1303
wrathhead1303
errorc1320
angera1325
gremth1340
iroura1380
brethc1380
couragec1386
heavinessc1386
felona1400
follya1400
wrathnessc1440
choler1530
blast1535
malice1538
excandescency1604
stomachosity1656
bad blood1664
corruption1799
needle1874
irateness1961
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judges viii. 2 Whan he had sayde this, their blast was swaged from him.
3. † b. figurative. Boasting: cf. the phrase to blow one's own trumpet. Obsolete.† c. at one blast (Latin uno flatu): at once, at the same time. for a blast: for once.† d. A company (of huntsmen). Obsolete.
a. The sending of a continuous puff of breath through a wind-instrument, so as to make it sound; the blowing (of a trumpet, or the like); hence, the sound so produced; any similar sound. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of wind instruments
blas?c1225
blastc1275
poopa1556
tooting1568
toota1598
too-too1812
tootling1821
too-tooing1843
tootle1850
tootle-te-tootle1855
toot-toot1883
toot-tootling1904
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > [noun]
blowingc1000
blastc1275
blow1723
too-tooing1843
blasting1862
windjamming1886
toot-tootling1904
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9943 Þer wes bemene blæst.
a1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4990 When þai here þe grete bemes blast.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18075 Þar come a steuen als thoner blast.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure i. xiv Of a great horne I harde a royal blast.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. vi. 31 Vpsprang the cry of men and trumpys blist [L. clangorque tubarum].
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xi. 4614 Iche buerne to be bun at the blast of a trumpe.
1611 Bible (King James) Josh. vi. 5 When they make a long blast with the rammes-horne. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 76 Th' Angelic blast Filld all the Regions. View more context for this quotation
1782 H. More Daniel in Sacred Dramas vii. 243 Were thy voice Loud as the trumpet's blast.
1851 D. G. Mitchell Fresh Gleanings in Wks. (1864) 304 The postilion had given two blasts on his bugle.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
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avauntry1330
vauntingc1340
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vaunta1400
crackingc1440
crackc1450
crowing1484
jactancea1492
vaunterya1492
bragancea1500
gloriation?1504
blasta1513
vousting1535
braggery?1571
jactation1576
self-boasting1577
thrasonism1596
braggartry1598
braggartism1601
jactancy1623
braggadocianism1624
blazing1628
jactitation1632
word-braving1642
rodomontadea1648
fanfaronade1652
superbiloquence1656
vapouring1656
rodomontading1661
blow1684
goster1703
gasconade1709
gasconading1709
vauntingness1727
braggadocioa1734
Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
braggade1763
gostering1763
penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
bull-flesh1820
blowing1840
vauntiness1851
kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
skite1860
gabbing1869
mouth1891
buck1895
skiting1916
boosterism1926
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxl. f. lxxiiiiv To kele somwhat theyr hyghe corage, or to oppresse in partye theyr brutisshe blastis.
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the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb]
soonc825
ratheeOE
rathelyeOE
rekeneOE
rekenlyOE
thereright971
anonOE
forth ona1000
coflyc1000
ferlyc1000
radlyOE
swiftlyc1000
unyoreOE
yareOE
at the forme (also first) wordOE
nowOE
shortlya1050
rightOE
here-rightlOE
right anonlOE
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forthrightc1175
forthwithalc1175
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swithc1175
with and withc1175
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anon-rights?c1225
belivec1225
lightly?c1225
quickly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
hastilyc1275
i-radlichec1275
as soon asc1290
aright1297
bedenea1300
in little wevea1300
withoute(n dwella1300
alrightc1300
as fast (as)c1300
at firstc1300
in placec1300
in the placec1300
mididonec1300
outrightc1300
prestc1300
streck13..
titec1300
without delayc1300
that stounds1303
rada1325
readya1325
apacec1325
albedenec1330
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as blivec1330
as line rightc1330
as straight as linec1330
in anec1330
in presentc1330
newlyc1330
suddenlyc1330
titelyc1330
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as soon1340
prestly1340
streckly1340
swithly?1370
evenlya1375
redelya1375
redlya1375
rifelya1375
yeplya1375
at one blastc1380
fresha1382
ripelyc1384
presentc1385
presently1385
without arrestc1385
readilyc1390
in the twinkling of a looka1393
derflya1400
forwhya1400
skeetlya1400
straighta1400
swifta1400
maintenantc1400
out of handc1400
wightc1400
at a startc1405
immediately1420
incontinent1425
there and then1428
onenec1429
forwithc1430
downright?a1439
agatec1440
at a tricec1440
right forth1440
withouten wonec1440
whipc1460
forthwith1461
undelayed1470
incessantly1472
at a momentc1475
right nowc1475
synec1475
incontinently1484
promptly1490
in the nonce?a1500
uncontinent1506
on (upon, in) the instant1509
in short1513
at a clap1519
by and by1526
straightway1526
at a twitch1528
at the first chop1528
maintenantly1528
on a tricea1529
with a tricec1530
at once1531
belively1532
straightwaysa1533
short days1533
undelayedly1534
fro hand1535
indelayedly1535
straight forth1536
betimesc1540
livelyc1540
upononc1540
suddenly1544
at one (or a) dash?1550
at (the) first dash?1550
instantly1552
forth of hand1564
upon the nines1568
on the nail1569
at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572
indilately1572
summarily1578
at one (a) chop1581
amain1587
straightwise1588
extempore1593
presto1598
upon the place1600
directly1604
instant1604
just now1606
with a siserary1607
promiscuously1609
at (in) one (an) instant1611
on (also upon) the momenta1616
at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617
hand to fist1634
fastisha1650
nextly1657
to rights1663
straightaway1663
slap1672
at first bolt1676
point-blank1679
in point1680
offhand1686
instanter1688
sonica1688
flush1701
like a thought1720
in a crack1725
momentary1725
bumbye1727
clacka1734
plumba1734
right away1734
momentarily1739
momentaneously1753
in a snap1768
right off1771
straight an end1778
abruptedly1784
in a whistle1784
slap-bang1785
bang?1795
right off the reel1798
in a whiff1800
in a flash1801
like a shot1809
momently1812
in a brace or couple of shakes1816
in a gird1825
(all) in a rush1829
in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830
straightly1830
toot sweetc1830
in two twos1838
rectly1843
quick-stick1844
short metre1848
right1849
at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854
off the hooks1860
quicksticks1860
straight off1873
bang off1886
away1887
in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890
ek dum1895
tout de suite1895
bung1899
one time1899
prompt1910
yesterday1911
in two ups1934
presto changeo1946
now-now1966
presto change1987
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [adverb] > for once
for onceOE
for a blast1579
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2487 Hure hornes þai gunne þo to blowe ful many at one blaste.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 94/2 Let vs glorifie him..and that not onely for a blast, but let vs continually preach and set forth the praises of God.
1638 T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 57 Both indeed at the first view or blast will seeme to shake both my foundation and edifice also.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 193 Plunging a number of gallant men at one blast into eternity.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > group or band of hunters
blast1486
fadea1522
stalec1540
hunting-fieldc1680
chase1811
field1818
harriers1877
1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij a A Blast of hunters.
4.
a. A strong current of air produced artificially.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > a blast or puff of air > artificially produced
buba1500
wind1553
blasta1618
air blast1825
a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 137 The Organ hath many Pipes, all which are filled with the same blast of wind.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 708 As in an Organ from one blast of wind To many a row of Pipes the sound-board breaths. View more context for this quotation
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. iv. 97 By which the blast was to be thrown in.
b. spec. The strong current of air used in iron-smelting, etc.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > a movement of air > a blast or puff of air > artificially produced > strong, as used in smelting, etc.
blast1697
cold blast1835
1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 482 To give very strong and lasting Blasts for Iron Forges.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Steel As soon as the Coal is thoroughly kindled..give the Blast.
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 945 The blast is conducted through sheet-iron or cast-iron pipes..into the tuyères.
c. in blast, at or in full blast (also transferred): at work, in full operation; also full blast: at full pitch; esp. very loudly. out of blast: not at work, stopped.
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the world > action or operation > in operation [phrase] > in full operation
afloat?1548
in (full) play1669
in full swing1703
at full swarth1713
in blast, at or in full blast1780
in (also at) full riot1848
the world > action or operation > inaction > in a state of inactivity [phrase] > out of action
out of order1530
out of commission1533
on the shelfa1577
out of action1703
out of blast1832
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [adverb]
loud971
bremeOE
strongly1340
sternly?a1400
lustilyc1400
great1534
vociferously1637
stentorophonically1693
thunderously1842
full blast1936
1780 in Virginia State Papers (1875) I. 370 If Mr. Ross can get in Blast time enough..he shall be paid for Shot Twenty five pounds pr: ton.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 652 At present there are four or five furnaces in the state that are in blast.
1832 H. Martineau Hill & Valley vii. 114 The day when yonder furnaces are out of blast will be the day of your ruin.
1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 229 In full blast—something in the extreme. ‘When she came to meeting, with her yellow hat and feathers, was'n't she in full blast?’
1853 A. Bunn Old Eng. & New Eng. I. v. 86 Oyster-saloons..to use an American phrase ‘in full blast’ (Anglicè, having a great run of business).
1855 J. S. C. Abbott Hist. Napoleon I. xxvi. 412 All the foundries of France were in full blast.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 143 The organ..was in full blast in the church.
1874 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David IV. Ps. lxxxviii. 1. 130 They burned perpetually like a furnace at full blast.
1936 H. Miller Black Spring (1938) 84 A penny arcade is going full blast.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart ii. ii. 191 Even when the wireless was not on full blast, Daphne often shouted as though it were.
1957 I. Cross God Boy (1958) xxi. 183 If it had come through a radio going full blast [etc.].
d. figurative. A severe or violent reprimand, outburst, or the like. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > tirade of invective or abuse
invective1523
raila1529
philippic1592
steletic1653
Steliteutic1751
tirade1801
diatribe1804
tertullianade1819
blast1874
pop-off1935
mouthful1941
flak1968
1874 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 4 Sept. (1917) I. 226 I gave the P.O. Department a blast in the papers.
1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army ii. iv. 203 If he but heard them, he charged up to revile them... Fred Roberts came under his blast.
1935 Time 11 Mar. 23/3 Despite blast and counterblast between President Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff.
1936 Variety 1 July 35/5 Would You Like a Nice 15-Minute Blast at President Roosevelt?
1954 New Yorker 31 July 48/2 A typical blast comes from the West Renfrewshire group, which concludes its resolution by saying tartly that the ‘blind folly’ of the official Party shows that the leadership is completely divorced from the feelings of the majority of the Labour movement.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > [noun] > lightning > bead or forked lightning > flash of
laitc900
slaughta1300
levinc1300
fire-slaughta1400
flaughta1400
thunderboltc1440
fudder1513
fire-flaughta1522
flag of firea1522
bolt1535
strokea1542
lightning bolta1560
lightning1560
fire-bolt?1562
fulgur1563
fulmen1563
thunder-thump1563
light-bolt1582
fire-flash1586
blaze1590
flake1590
clap1591
blastc1665
glade1744
streak1781
thunder-ball1820
leader stroke1934
c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 199 He..died by a blast of lightning.
1751 B. Franklin Let. 27 July in Suppl. Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1753) 91 The end enter'd by the electrick blast points North.
6. A sudden infection destructive to vegetable or animal life (formerly attributed to the blowing or breath of some malignant power, foul air, etc.).
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a. Blight; also an insect which causes blight.
b. spec. A disease of the sugar cane. archaic or Obsolete.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant
blast1750
speaning brash1872
reclamation disease1937
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 29v To preserue it both from blast and mildewe.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi v. iv. 85/1 Our Wheat and our Pease, fell under an unaccountable Blast.
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 245 It [the sugar-cane] is liable to one disorder hitherto incurable, the Yellow Blast.
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 435 The Blast. This insect..is generally pernicious to all the plants on which it breeds.
1815 Encycl. Brit. III. 658/2 Blast is also used in agriculture and gardening, for what is otherwise called a blight.
c. transferred and figurative. Any blasting, withering, or pernicious influence; a curse.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful influence
venomc1315
venomc1380
enmitya1387
blast1547
arsenic1583
aconite1606
Nessus shirta1616
bane-touch1647
blighta1661
poison tree1794
upas1801
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. Cxlv A blast..in the eye.
1559 T. Bryce in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 176 When shall thy spouse and turtle-doue Be free from bitter blaste?
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xxxiv. 14 Paraphr.) 182 Must needs be the forfeiting of Gods protection, and bring his blasts and curses.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. xii. 179 Turns the blessing into a blast.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 204. ⁋2 Resistless as the blasts of pestilence.
d. A dialectal name of erysipelas.
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1772 W. Buchan Domest. Med. (ed. 2) xxv. 314 The country people..call this disease [erysipelas] a blast, and imagine it proceeds from foul air, or ill wind.
e. A flatulent disease in sheep.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > damage due to environmental conditions > plant affected by
blast1578
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > blossom or flower(s) > blasted or withered
blast1578
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > fall from prosperous or thriving condition > fallen condition
ruina1393
rot1581
declension1642
declinedness1648
downwardness1650
decayedness1702
decline1705
blast1795
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 83v Otherwise shalt thou hang lyke a blast among the faire blossoms.
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 87 As in all gardeins some flowers some weeds, and as in all trees some blossoms some blasts.
1795 R. Southey Occas. Pieces i Thy youth in ignorance and labour past, And thine old age all barrenness and blast.
8.
a. A ‘blowing up’ by gunpowder or other explosive; an explosion.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > explosive sound > [noun]
clapc1440
back-blast1577
bouncea1616
blast1635
fulminating1651
fulmination1651
detonation1677
blow1694
explosion1736
bursting1771
blowing up1772
blowing1799
blow-up1807
pong1823
chunk-chunk1898
chunking1902
1635 J. Babington Pyrotechnia lvi. 63 Holding your head under the horizontal line of your Piece, for feare the blast annoy you.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. vii. 72 The blast was occasioned by a spark of fire from the forge.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiii. 285 A noise like a quarry blast, explosive and momentary.
b. The quantity of gunpowder or other explosive used in a blasting operation.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > explosive material > [noun] > quantity used in blasting operation
blast1885
1885 Daily News 12 Oct. 5/2 When Hallett's Reef in Hell Gate was destroyed..the blast was the largest ever used.
c. A destructive wave of highly compressed air spreading outwards from an explosion. Also attributive and in other combinations, as blast wall (see quot. 1852), blast wave; blast-proof adj.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > other shelters
bomb-proof1755
splinter-proof1805
blast wall1852
command post1918
bunker1939
fallout shelter1955
the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air-wave > large pressure wave
shock wave1907
blast1923
air blast1940
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [adjective] > protection or proof against something
windproof1616
winterproof1650
burglar-proof1856
hole-proof1913
shatter-proof1936
blast-proof1940
1852 Harper's Mag. Apr. 644/2 A structure of black timber..set up in the shape of an acute angle. This is a ‘blast-wall’, intended to offer some resistance to a rush of air in case of an explosion [at the powder-mill].
1923 R. Kipling Irish Guards in Great War I. 88 Our shrapnel, which had no back-blast.
1939 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 43 225 Blast is a non-translational shock wave that is transmitted through the air to considerable distances from an exploding bomb... In the blast wave a phase of positive pressure is followed by a phase of negative pressure.
1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xxiv. 420 The Government was planning..to provide blast-proof steel shelters for every house in the country.
1941 Flight 10 Apr. 272/2 Even some of the machines..are protected against bombing by blast walls.
d. Golf. (Cf. blast v. 5b.)
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1927 Daily Express 29 Oct. 3/4 I described three kinds of shots which I employed from the sand: the blast, the chip, and..the cut shot.
e. A party, esp. one that is very noisy or wild. Also, a good time, an enjoyable or exciting experience (chiefly U.S.). slang.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun] > an enjoyable time
big time1855
blast1953
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > noisy or rowdy
bender1846
hooley1877
corroboree1885
wild party1925
whoopee1928
rort1941
wingding1949
blast1953
smash1963
roister1964
rave-in1967
rager1988
1953 D. Harris in Wentworth & Flexner's Dict. Amer. Slang (1975) 42/1 Maybe it's a little early in the day for their first blast.
1959 Times 9 Mar. 13/4 A blast, a great party.
1966 N.Y. Times 9 Sept. d9 I've been a lucky girl... In ‘Dolittle’ I'm having a blast.
1967 W. Murray Sweet Ride vi. 89 Man, they're throwing a monster blast over on the East Latego later... Everybody's going.
1970 Harper's Mag. July 37 Meyer himself had a blast. An entirely unpretentious man,..he had dreaded this confrontation with sophisticated, distinguished Yale.
1972 J. S. Gunn in G. W. Turner Good Austral. Eng. iii. 56 I found that the effect of a drug can be a bang, blast, boot.
1979 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 24 May 15/5 Johnson said playing in the pros and in Oakland has been a blast and baseball had been good to him.
9. Scottish. A smoke (of tobacco). Cf. King James's Counterblast to Tobacco (1604).
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1887 N.E.D. at Blast Mod. South Sc. He takes his blast after dinner.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1.)
blast-borne adj.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [adjective] > (of rain) driven by wind
drivingc1325
flaw-blown1820
blast-borne1830
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 124 Blastborne hail.
blast-puff n.
b. (In sense 3.)
blast-horn n.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [noun] > horn or hooter
post-horna1652
steam-trumpet1801
blast-horn1844
fish-horn1856
hooter1878
klaxon1910
beep-beep1929
1844 C. MacFarlane Camp of Refuge I. 27 Sounding all the blast-horns on the house-top.
c. (In sense 4.)
blast-bloomery n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > furnaces for melting or refining metals > furnaces for treating iron
string-hearth1409
smithy1565
bloomery1584
chafery1663
air-bloomery1825
blast-bloomery1860
scrap-furnace1861
block-furnace-
1860 W. Fordyce Hist. Coal 110 Besides the orifice or chimney at the top, there were two openings, one large in front, the other of smaller dimensions behind, for the insertion of the bellows pipe. Such was the Blast Bloomery.
blast-cylinder n.
blast-engine n.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air
blower1795
blaster1830
blowing-machine1835
blowing-engine1845
blast-engine1875
blast-fan1879
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 949 There are 3 blast-engines..They have 96-inch blast- and 40-inch steam-cylinders.
blast-machine n.
blast-meter n.
C2. † blast-bob n. Obsolete the stroke of a blast of wind.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of > stroke or shock of
blast-bob1582
wind-shock1913
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 77 Thee boughs frap whurring, when stem with blastbob is hacked.
blast bomb n. a bomb whose effect depends mainly on its blast, esp. a home-made or hand-held one.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > other bombs
iron bomb1759
suicide bomb1889
crump1914
radio bomb1914
marmite1915
pineapple bomb1916
pineapple1918
germ bomb1921
stick-bomb1928
bomblet1937
breadbasket1940
flash bomb1940
blockbuster1942
butterfly bomb1942
screamer1942
plastic bomb1944
napalm bomb1945
mail bomb1972
blast bomb1976
1976 Economist 21 Feb. 17/2 One man was killed when a blast bomb he was assembling on Saturday night went off too early.
1981 N.Y. Times 13 July a2 The police reported a blast bomb was thrown at an army patrol.
blast-fan n. a fan for producing a blast of air.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air
blower1795
blaster1830
blowing-machine1835
blowing-engine1845
blast-engine1875
blast-fan1879
the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan > other types of fan
fanny1842
electric fan1868
exhaust-fan1874
suction fan1874
blast-fan1879
turbofan1911
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 339/2 To..blow either hot or cold air through it by means of a blast-fan.
blast-hearth n. a hearth for reducing lead-ore.
blast hole n. the hole by which water enters a pump, the wind-bore.
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1870 Eng. Mechanic & Mirror of Sci. & Art 8 July 380/3 Air-strung pump... He will find that the short pipe, which is called the blast hole piece, is what is called blast hole tight.
blast-lamp n. (a) see quot. a1884; (b) a lamp in which the flame is driven on to a surface by a current of air; a blow-lamp.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > heating or melting instrument
loggerhead1687
blast-lampa1884
blow-lamp1896
blow-torch1909
torch1909
thermal lance1973
the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > types of
crusiea1774
agitable lamp1788
gaslight1806
moaler1843
table lampc1849
bracket-burner1867
blast-lampa1884
Betty lamp1893
acetylene1899
quartz lamp1907
Etna lamp1912
palouser1918
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 106/1 Blast Lamp, one with an artificially produced draft of air to aid combustion.
1902 M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp 57 A benzoline blast lamp which would fetch off any varnish in the world.
blast-pipe n. in a locomotive, a pipe conveying the steam from the cylinders into the funnel and so increasing the draught.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > locomotive > steam locomotive > pipe conveying steam
blast-pipec1865
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 315/1 The combustion..is rapidly effected by means of the blast-pipe of the cylinder.
blast-pot n. (see quot.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun]
oveneOE
furnacea1225
chimney1340
fire-stock1440
firework1606
fire room1657
firehole1682
poil1756
smut1819
blast-pot1887
1887 Harper's Mag. Apr. 670/2 Before the war only seven small furnaces—‘blast-pots’ they were called—having a total capacity of 20,000 tons, were in operation in all Tennessee.
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blast-freezing n. freezing, esp. of foodstuffs, by means of a rapid current of chilled air.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing
refrigeration1850
cold storage1877
quick-freezing1889
chilling1902
flash freezing1942
hydro-cooling1942
freeze-drying1944
blast-freezing1948
icing1956
cook-freeze1970
cook-chill1977
sous vide1986
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > frozen condition > refrigeration to a low temperature
snap freezing1841
freeze-drying1944
blast-freezing1948
1943 D. K. Tressler & C. F. Evers Freezing Preservation of Foods iii. 83 Air blast freezing at about −10°F was also used by a number of juice freezing companies.]
1948 W. A. Gortner et al. Princ. Food Freezing xvi. 244 Blast freezing, or freezing by the cold-air blast system, is the most rapid method of freezing in use in locker plants. A large blast freezer requires an extra room.
1983 Jrnl. Soc. Archivists 7 169 Many libraries..are in the flood area... External preparation for flood requires rapid access to blast freezing.
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blast-freeze v. [as a back-formation] transitive.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > preserve by cooling or freezing
chill1891
quick-freeze1928
hydrocool1945
blast-freeze1965
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > expose to extreme cold for freezing or preserving > refrigerate to a low temperature
snap-freeze1841
freeze-dry1949
deep-freeze1957
blast-freeze1965
flash-freeze1973
1965 New Scientist 18 Feb. 431/1 Trays of stabilised egg are ‘blast-frozen’ to −30°C.
1979 Fortune 29 Jan. 85 Fresh-caught whole salmon are being..transformed into..fillets which are immediately vacuum-packaged and blast-frozen.
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blast freezer n. [as a back-formation] a machine for blast-freezing.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for
ice room1758
ice chamber1768
icebox1792
cool chamber1801
ice chest1826
freezer1847
refrigerator1861
chill-room1884
ice cave1884
cold store1895
cool store1906
Coolgardie?1924
fridge1926
Frigidaire1926
deep freeze1941
chest freezer1947
hydro-cooler1947
reefer1958
fridge-freezer1971
flash freezer1984
blast freezer1986
1986 Scotsman 31 July 4 (advt.) Smoked Salmon from fish which have not endured the confines of the rearing cage or the dessication [sic] of the blast freezer is rare indeed.
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blast hole n. Mining a hole into which a charge of explosive is inserted.
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1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. N4 Their bigness is about an Inch at least, for either Blast-holes, or Clift-holes.
1944 Mining Congress Jrnl. June 77/3 The diamond drill is particularly adapted for blast holes.
1944 Mining Congress Jrnl. June 71/1 Blast hole drilling with diamond bits has been introduced recently..in the United States and Canada.
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blast from the past: something which evokes a powerful sense of nostalgia, typically following its reappearance or rediscovery after a period of obscurity, disuse, etc.In quot. 1954 with punning allusion to sense 3a.Apparently popularized by rock-and-roll DJs in the 1960s, who used the phrase to introduce old, well-known songs; see quot. 1967.
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1954 Michigan Alumnus 6 Nov. 63/3 It was ‘Blast from the Past’ day as the Michigan Band Alumni staged their fifth annual reunion.
1967 Progress (Clearfield, Pa.) 20 May 2/4 Jerry [Blavat] holds sway over fans who are fascinated by his talk—‘This is your Geator with the Heater coming to you on Big-Time Tuesday where we rock the big tick-tock, where we got the class to beat the blast from the past’—and his swinging show filled with the hottest sounds around.
1990 Washington Post 9 Mar. (Style section) d1/6 There's a blast from the past. Does anybody still drink Tab? Anybody under 40?
1997 T. Murphy Getting off Clean 170 ‘Good night, Daddy,’ I say absently, picking up my backpack. My father laughs. ‘Daddy?’ he says. ‘That's a blast from the past.’
2016 Central Coast Express Advocate (Austral.) (Nexis) 22 July 5 Bursting with character and old-world charm, this circa 1928 California bungalow is a real blast from the past.
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U.S. colloquial. to put the blast on (someone) (later also to put (someone) on blast): to criticize or reprimand (someone) severely; to rebuke sharply. Cf. sense 4d.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > severely
to be sharp upon1561
crossbite1571
scarify1582
canvass1590
maul1592
slasha1652
fib1665
to be severe on (or upon)1672
scalp1676
to pull to (or in) pieces1703
roast1710
to cut up1762
tomahawk1815
to blow sky-high1819
row1826
excoriate1833
scourge1835
target1837
slate1848
scathe1852
to take apart1880
soak1892
pan1908
burn1914
slam1916
sandbag1919
to put the blast on (someone)1929
to tear down1938
clobber1944
handbag1952
rip1961
monster1976
1929 D. Runyon in Cosmopolitan July 57/1 [She] puts the blast on her plenty for chasing a two-handed spender..out of the joint.
1944 Yank 4 Feb. 23 (heading) Critics Put the Blast on Navy Big Leaguers.
2000 ‘Eminem’ Real Slim Shady (transcribed from song) Little bitch put me on blast on MTV.
2020 @anxiouslystoney 7 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 14 Dec. 2020) You talk shit about my family, I'm gonna put you on blast.
U.S. colloquial. on blast: at full volume or intensity.
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1997 C. Tishy Jealous Heart v. 127 Air-conditioner on blast, she drove out Broadway.
2020 @jvzminenicole 11 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 14 Dec. 2020) Putting your favorite playlist on blast is a form of self care.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
blastn.2
/blɑːst/, /blast/, U.S. /blæst/ A primitive undifferentiated blood-cell, esp. one found in acute leukæmia. In full blast cell.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > components of blood > blood corpuscle or plate > [noun]
blood corpuscle1838
disc1839
blood cell1841
corpuscle1845
haematoblast1876
blood plate1882
plaquette1883
blood plaque1884
plaque1884
blood platelet1888
platelet1888
haemad1891
thrombocyte1893
blood disc1902
blast cell1947
1947 H. A. Christian Osler's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 16) 965 Monocytic Leucemia... The cell is a monocyte or monocyte blast.
1952 Science CXV. 357/2 The inhibitor activity of the primitive blast cells from acute leukemia was close to zero.
1961 Lancet 9 Sept. 603/1 Leukæmic cells, particularly the blast cells, contain no inhibitor whatever.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
blastv.
/blɑːst/, /blast/, U.S. /blæst/ I. Senses relating to blowing or puffing, neutrally or with explosive force.† 1. † b. transitive. To blow (out, forth, abroad); to breathe (out), utter loudly, proclaim. Obsolete.† 2. † 4.
a. intransitive. To blow, to puff violently. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > move (of air) [verb (intransitive)] > produce current of air > blow with the mouth or nostrils
blastc1300
c1300 K. Alis. 5438 Dragouns..grisely whistleden and blasten.
1483 W. Caxton in tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 397/3 Ther came a grete multytude of fendes blastyng and roryng.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/1 To blaste with ones mouthe or with belowes.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 23 (Jam.) Twa shepherds out of breath, Rais'd-like and blasting.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > blow out, away, or apart
overblowa1387
ventilatea1440
blast1548
difflate1590
exsufflate1666
whuffle1906
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxxvjv Thei..blasted emongest theim selfes, that the Calicians would leaue the toune desolate.
1562 tr. H. Latimer Serm. to Clergye in 27 Serm. i. f. 4 Countrefayte doctrine, which hath ben blasted & blowen out by some.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 712 The winde..whereby this fire was..blasted abroad.
c. nonce-word. To emit blasts.
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1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. ii. 43 The engine which had been clanking and blasting in our ears incessantly for so many days.
a. intransitive. To blow (on a trumpet or other wind instrument).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (intransitive)]
blowc1275
blast1384
toot1549
wind1600
tootle1842
tootle-too1857
1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame 1866 Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste.
b. transitive. To blow (a trumpet, etc.).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > playing wind instrument > play wind instrument [verb (transitive)]
blowc1000
blazec1384
blast1530
toot1614
breathe1718
tootle1890
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/1 He blasted his horne so hygh that all the wodde dyd shake.
c. with the hearers as object.: To din or denounce by trumpeting. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)] > deafen or stun
adinc1275
stonyc1330
astone1340
astony1340
deavea1400
fordeave?1553
blasta1616
stun1621
obtund1664
dunt1672
dun1674
bruit1707
astound1727
steven1862
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. ix. 36 Trumpetters With brazen dinne blast you the Citties eare. View more context for this quotation
1858 A. Polson Law & Lawyers 197 ‘Blasting you at the horn,’ ‘poinding your estate.’
3. intransitive. To boast, ‘blow one's own trumpet.’ Scottish.
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1814 C. I. Johnstone Saxon & Gaël I. 100 (Jam.) I am no gien to blast.
a. transitive. To blow (up), inflate.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > cause disorders of internal organs [verb (transitive)] > distend
to-blowc1000
inflate1528
blast1578
stent1801
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xcv. 137 The same herbe..slaketh the [bowels] whan they are blasted vp and swollen.
b. intransitive (for reflexive). To swell up. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > swell [verb (intransitive)]
swellOE
bell?c1225
boll1362
risea1398
blast1578
about1725
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxv. 177 A yong Catt whereunto I haue giuen of these floures to eate..blasted immediatly, and shortly after died.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xxi. 228 [A rustic says] ‘They [the sheep] be getting blasted’... ‘Joseph,’ he said, ‘the sheep have blasted themselves.’
5.
a. transitive. To blow up (rocks, etc.) by explosion.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst > blow up or explode
to blow away1523
blow1599
to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612
blast1758
to blow sky-high1823
dynamite1881
lyddite1906
1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall xv. §1. 161 The miner is generally obliged to blast the rock.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xv. 314 His shallow schemes were blasted to atoms.
1859 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 279 The ledge of rock had been blasted and hewn away.
b. Golf. intransitive. To hit a ball out of a bunker by an ‘explosive’ shot, causing it to jump up as if a mine had been exploded beneath it.
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1927 Daily Express 29 Oct. 3/4 Here you are in a bunker,..the only thing you can do is blast.
c. intransitive. Of a rocket or spacecraft: to take off, be launched into space; usually const. off. Also used of any powered phase of flight. Also of an astronaut.
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society > travel > air or space travel > use or science of rockets > [verb (intransitive)] > be launched
blast1951
society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [verb (intransitive)] > be launched
blast1951
1951 R. Bradbury Silver Locusts 190 You could still smell the hard, scorched smell where the last rocket blasted off when it went back to Earth.
1953 H. Haber Man in Space 262 The moment the big ship blasts off there is no allowance for the slightest failure.
1956 R. A. Heinlein Double Star (1958) ii. 38 I was spacesick..as soon as the rocket ship quit blasting and went into free fall.
1969 Times 17 May 8/1 It only remains for three veteran space travellers..to blast off on Sunday.
d. To create from or out of rock, etc., by means of explosion.
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society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [verb (transitive)] > other specific processes
rama1450
uncallow1729
riprap1837
kid1877
bulldoze1931
bulldozer1945
blast1951
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse vi. 96 In many of these places swimming baths had been blasted out of the rocks.
1978 B. Bainbridge Young Adolf i. 11 The train plunged into the hills surrounding the city and entered a massive tunnel blasted from yellow sandstone.
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a. (dialect) To smoke (tobacco). Cf. blow v.1 9b. (The usual word in S. Scotl.)
b. To smoke (marijuana). Also intransitive. Cf. blasted adj. 4. slang (chiefly U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (intransitive)] > smoke marijuana
blast1959
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > take drugs [verb (transitive)] > smoke marijuana
toke1952
blast1959
do1969
1959 J. E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo & Lore 17 Blast Mary Jane to kingdom come, to smoke hemp or Mari Huana cigarettes ‘by the pack’, i.e., furiously.
1960 R. G. Reisner Jazz Titans 151 Blast, to get high.
1961 F. J. Rigney & L. D. Smith Real Bohemia p. xiii Blast crap, to, to smoke marijuana.
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 27 Blast,..smoke marijuana.
II. To blow on perniciously.† 9. intransitive. To wither or fall under a blight. Obsolete.
7. transitive. To blow or breathe on balefully or perniciously; to wither, shrivel, or arrest vegetation; to blight. Said of a malignant wind, lightning, flame and (formerly) of a ‘malignant’ planet.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > exert harmful influence upon
blasta1533
blight1712
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] > of environmental or supernatural factors
smitea1382
strikec1480
blasta1533
perisha1549
thunderstrike1613
siderate1623
to strike dead, blind1750
a1533 J. Frith Mirroure (?1536) iii. sig. Aviii v By blastinge thy frutes, or such other scourges.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 723 To be Blasted, or striken with a planet.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 239 This lately aduaunced building was blasted with flame.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxviii. 1124 Every body that is blasted, or striken with lightning.
1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant i, in Poems (new ed.) 17 O Fairest flower no sooner blown but blasted.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 8 Southern Winds to blast my flow'ry Spring.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. ii. 46 The fertile vale of Siddim was blasted with eternal barrenness.
8. transferred and figurative. (Blasting withers up the brightness, freshness, beauty, vitality, and promise of living things: hence)† c. To affect injuriously or perniciously with.
a. To blight or ruin (hopes, plans, prosperity).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > overthrow or overturn > a project, design, hope, etc.
ruinate1595
blast1639
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. iv. 115 Oftentimes heaven blasteth those hopes which bud first and fairest.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. ii. 90 The death of Henry blasted all these hopes.
1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches x. 338 My personal prospects in the colony were for the present entirely blasted.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 397 When heinous sin earth's wholesome purity blasted.
b. To bring infamy upon (character, reputation); to discredit effectually, ruin, destroy.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > detract from [verb (transitive)] > ruin reputation of
to crack credit1567
blast1607
lose1608
1607 M. Drayton Legend Cromwel 2 Would you forbeare to blast me with defame.
1660 W. Winstanley England's Worthies 142 So hath this worthy Princes fame been blasted by malicious traducers.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 5. 31 This Query..is designed to blast the Memory and Title of King William.
1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxiv. 22 I did not attempt to blast your character.
1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith iv. 194 To blast this evidence with suspicion of untrustworthiness.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally > affect injuriously with
overgoOE
overruna1538
smear1549
blast1605
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 148 Some of the greatest Romans were a little blasted with this foolerie.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 157. ⁋6 I was blasted with sudden imbecility.
d. To strike (the eyes or vision) with dimness or horror. archaic.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [verb (transitive)] > make sight dim
mist?a1439
beblear1609
tara1612
blast1757
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > dim
dima1300
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troublea1500
misten1599
perstringe1603
blear1605
tara1612
disgregatea1631
purblind1644
obfuscate1656
blast1757
blur1791
bedim1811
1757 T. Gray Ode I iii. ii, in Odes 10 He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
1794 S. T. Coleridge Elegy in Morning Chron. 23 Sept. Still Edmund's image rose, to blast her view.
1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) ix. 83 Wherever he turned his eyes they were blasted with some object which made them recoil.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > be diseased, injured, or discoloured [verb (intransitive)]
burn?1523
blast1580
slaya1642
smut1657
fire1693
mowburn1707
go1735
strike1742
curl1793
gum1794
sunburn1833
French1836
rust1839
shank1848
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1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 6v The Easterly winde maketh the blossomes to blast.
a1618 W. Raleigh in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 235 Tell Beauty how she blasteth.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §44 51 This bud soon blasted in the blossom.
1748 J. Eliot Ess. Field-husbandry in New-Eng. 20 I have been told that Summer Wheat sowed with Barley is not apt to Blast.
1838 E. Flagg Far West II. 217 All of the smaller grains..being liable to blast before the harvesting.
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a. transitive. To strike or visit with the wrath and curse of heaven; to curse. Often in imprecations in the imperative or optative form (for God blast…); also as an exclamation of annoyance.
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the mind > language > malediction > [verb (transitive)]
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to swear at ——1680
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the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [verb (transitive)] > as everyday imprecation
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a1634 G. Chapman Revenge for Honour (1654) v And thus I kiss'd my last breath. Blast you all.
1640–4 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 130 Blasted may that tongue be, that shall..derogate from the glory of those Halcyon days.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (iv. 3 Annot.) 29/2 His enemies..blasted him as a man of blood.
1706 J. Addison Rosamond i. i My wrath like that of heav'n shall..blast her in her Paradise.
1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. x. v. 53 But, blast my Reputation, if I had received such a Letter, if I would not have searched the World to have found the Writer.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 161 Blast me cries Tibbs, if that be all, there's no need of paying for that.
1793 T. Hastings Regal Rambler 74 Leaving all the ladies below to blast or bless their eyes, no matter which.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. viii. 197 ‘As I think, he laid hands on your body...’ ‘Hands,..no, blast him—not so bad as that neither.’
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii Calling on their Maker to curse them..blast them, and damn them.
1916 E. F. Benson David Blaize ix. 158 ‘I say, Blazes, there's extra confirmation class this evening.’..‘Oh, blast!’ said David.
1936 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Ascent of F6 i. iii Give it here, blast your eyes!
1955 N. Marsh Scales of Justice ix. 209 ‘Damnation, blast and bloody hell!’ Alleyn said.
b. absol. To curse, to use profane language.
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1762 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 130/2 On they go..swearing, blasting, damning.
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a. intransitive. Of a sound, esp. music: to be very loud; to blare from, out of, etc., a place or thing. Also of a system or device: to produce such a sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (intransitive)]
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1931 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 5 May 1/4 The apple carnival was in carnival attire,..with gay music blasting from loudspeakers on every street corner.
1977 U.S. News & World Rep. (Nexis) 7 Mar. 76 CB [sc. citizen's-band] broadcasts from nearby cars and neighboring houses are..blasting out of their hi-fi speakers.
1996 Japan Times 29 Apr. 10/6 Trucks..with 2,000-watt amplifiers blasting at hundreds of thousands of dancers.
2020 Sc. Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 20 Sept. 13 As music blasted from the windows, there was little thought for frontline workers who may have been trying to sleep.
b. transitive. To produce or play (music, etc.) very loudly. Also with out.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > make a loud sound or noise [verb (transitive)]
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1932 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 22 Mar. c8/1 When a transmitter is blasting music into the air, hour after hour, it is depriving other amateurs of an opportunity to use their stations.
1971 C. Bonington Annapurna South Face ix. 107 After the meal we played liar dice or Scrabble, with our tape-recorder blasting out music in the background.
1994 This Mag. (Toronto, Ont.) Nov. 20/1 About 50 Front supporters..blasted Dixie from a tinny sound system.
2020 Newstex Blogs (Nexis) 6 May As Trump toured the factory, loudspeakers blasted the soundtrack from his campaign rallies.
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