to blast
- verb
- /blæst/
- The car hydroplaned over dips filled with rainwater, blasting muddy showers over the hood.
And if you whiff your coin, I'm going to blast you.
- And if you whiff your coin, I'm going to blast you.
- Farah, Lucian, Cassian and Azrael blast back to the night court.
- And he gets in his truck and drives around the corner, hits AID, boom, blasts him like launches him, double amputee launched.
Examples
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Running parallel, Archer and Castor blast at each other at point-blank range.
Fiction book (1997) -
You two, blast some robots.
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Way to blast out of the bunker, huh?
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I saw you blast Faraday right off the court in South Orange last season.
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Rita and Zedd chase Mordant and Goldar around the palace, blasting them with their staffs.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the championship game, she managed to blast the ball straight into the goal from thirty yards away.
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He took a deep breath before he blasted the tennis ball over the net for a winning point.
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With a powerful swing, he blasted the puck into the top corner of the net, scoring the first goal of the match.
Synonyms
To close or hit something with great force and make a loud noise
To try to score by sending a ball toward the goal
To hit someone or something very hard
To fire a gun or hit something with a bullet
To throw something very hard
To hit something with great force, often in sport
To hit something with great force, often in sport
To hit a ball hard to make it go far
To throw or send something suddenly with great force
To break something violently into pieces
To hit or throw something high into the air
To throw something with great force and speed
Send something suddenly and forcefully, like a rock or angry words
To shoot something from a gun or bow
To hit something suddenly with great force
Antonyms
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Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Specialized
Damage to the body from the strong wave of air and flying debris after an explosion
- Specialized
A strong flow of hot gas pushed back from a fired weapon that can injure people behind it
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
To blast in sports, meaning to hit or shoot with great force, comes from the sense of giving a powerful 'blow', so to blast the ball is to hit it very hard.