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Blasted   /blˈæstəd/  /blˈæstɪd/   Listen
verb
Blast  v. t.  (past & past part. blasted; pres. part. 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. "Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind."
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. "I'll cross it, though it blast me." "Blasted with excess of light."
3.
To confound by a loud blast or din. "Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear."
4.
To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.


Blast  v. i.  
1.
To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
2.
To blow; to blow on a trumpet. (Obs.) "Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste."


adjective
Blasted  adj.  
1.
Blighted; withered. "Upon this blasted heath."
2.
Confounded; accursed; detestable. "Some of her own blasted gypsies."
3.
Rent open by an explosive. "The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote."





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... of other systems founded on the will of the people we trace to internal dissension the influences which have so often blasted the hopes of the friends of freedom. The social elements, which were strong and successful when united against external danger, failed in the more difficult task of properly adjusting their own internal organization, and thus gave way the great principle of self-government. ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Andrew Jackson • Andrew Jackson
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... cloud above came a blinding light and a great crash of thunder,—the one so intense, the other so tremendous, that for a minute the two stood as if stunned. Then, "The tree!" cried Audrey. The great pine, blasted and afire, uprooted itself and fell from them like a reed that the wind has snapped. The thunder crash, and the din with which the tree met its fellows of the forest, bore them down, and finally struck the earth from which it came, ...
— Audrey • Mary Johnston
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... two o'clock, having a long journey to perform before night, as we had the intention of returning to sleep at Tepenacasco. We took leave of our hospitable entertainers, and again resumed our journey over these fine roads, many parts of which are blasted from the great rocks of porphyry; and as we looked back at the picturesque colony glistening in the sun, could hardly believe the prophecies of our more experienced drivers, that a storm was brewing in the sky, which would burst forth before evening. We were determined not to believe ...
— Life in Mexico • Frances Calderon de la Barca
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... wipe and wipe, and say, 'A fine hot day,' can ye!" cried Henchard in a savage undertone, imprisoning Jopp between himself and the bank wall. "If it hadn't been for your blasted advice it might have been a fine day enough! Why did ye let me go on, hey?—when a word of doubt from you or anybody would have made me think twice! For you can never be sure of ...
— The Mayor of Casterbridge • Thomas Hardy
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... deserts this is the loveliest when the early rains have given rebirth to the hope that stirs within its bosom once a year. But the tenderfoot saw nothing of its pathetic promise, of its fragile beauty so soon to be blasted. His sunken eyes swept the scene and found at first only a desert waste in which ...
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