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Blasted

adjective

1.

Expletives used informally as intensifiers. Synonyms: blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal. "It's a blamed shame" , "A blame cold winter" , "Not a blessed dime" , "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing" , "He's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool" , "A deuced idiot" , "An infernal nuisance"

Blast

verb

(past & past part. blasted; pres. part. blasting)

1.

Make a strident sound. Synonym: blare.

2.

Hit hard. Synonyms: boom, nail, smash.

3.

Use explosives on. Synonym: shell.

4.

Apply a draft or strong wind to to.

5.

Create by using explosives. Synonym: shell.

6.

Make with or as if with an explosion.

7.

Fire a shot. Synonym: shoot.

8.

Criticize harshly or violently. Synonyms: crucify, pillory, savage. "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"

9.

Shatter as if by explosion. Synonym: knock down.

10.

Shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly.

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"Blasted" Quotes from Famous Books

... carried in myself my own condemnation beyond utterance. I thought I merited abundantly worse than all he could say of me, and that, if all men knew me, they would trample me under their feet. My reputation then was blasted by the industry of this ecclesiastic. He caused all such as passed for persons of piety to declare against me. I thought he and they were in the right and therefore quietly bore it all. Confused like a criminal that dares not lift up his eyes, I looked upon the ...

— The Autobiography of Madame Guyon • Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

... their leaders, the balance of the mob surged forward uttering cries of hate and rage. From all the doorways, fresh hordes of Earthmen came rushing to join the fray. Again and again the terrible rays of the Jovian guards blasted scores of their assailants into nothingness but more came. Presently the tubes of the Jovians began to lose their power and the violet light became lighter in shade. With a roar the Earthmen swept forward and the huge guards went down under the onrushing waves of humanity. Half a ...

— Giants on the Earth • Sterner St. Paul Meek

... looked as though it had been scorched. It had been swept, as it were, by something that burned—blasted. It was, I am told, quite dreadful. The bodies were found lying side by side, faces downwards, both pointing away from the wood, as though they had been in the act of running, and not more than a dozen ...

— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... it,' she returned; and now she was weeping wildly. 'The story will never be told by me. How could I bear to hear him tell me that I had ruined him—that his prospects were blasted? Oh, have mercy upon a miserable woman, Captain Burnett! For the sake of my boy—for Kester's and Mollie's sake—help me to send ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... crowded and busy seasons, one figure stands out with clearness and beauty. In his case only (so far as my personal knowledge goes), there was nothing derogatory to dignity or to manhood in being called beautiful, for he was that bud of splendid promise blasted to the core, before its full triumphant blooming—known to the world as a madman and an assassin, but to the profession as "that ...

— [19th Century Actor] Autobiographies • George Iles

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