Blasted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blast \Blast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {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.


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              Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind.
                                                    --Gen. xii. 6.
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     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.
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              I'll cross it, though it blast me.    --Shak.
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              Blasted with excess of light.         --T. Gray.
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     3. To confound by a loud blast or din.
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              Trumpeters,
              With brazen din blast you the city's ear. --Shak.
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     4. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder,
        dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blasted \Blast"ed\, a.
     1. Blighted; withered.
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              Upon this blasted heath.              --Shak.
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     2. Confounded; accursed; detestable.
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              Some of her own blasted gypsies.      --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     3. Rent open by an explosive.
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              The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote.
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blasted
       adj 1: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
              "a wasted landscape" [syn: {desolate}, {desolated}, {devastated},
               {ravaged}, {ruined}, {wasted}]
       2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
          idiot"; "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"; "tired or
          his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn:
          {blame}, {blamed}, {blessed}, {damn}, {damned}, {darned},
          {deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned},
           {infernal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "blasted":
     ausgespielt, baffled, balked, bankrupt, betrayed, bilked, blamed,
     blankety-blank, blessed, blighted, blown, broken, chapfallen,
     confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed,
     dadburned, danged, darned, dashed, defeated, desolated, despoiled,
     destroyed, deuced, devastated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned,
     dissatisfied, doggone, doggoned, done for, done in, down-and-out,
     fallen, finished, flyblown, foiled, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy,
     frustrated, fusty, goldanged, goldarned, gone to pot, goshdarn,
     gross, ill done-by, ill-served, in ruins, irremediable, kaput,
     let down, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty,
     out of countenance, outright, overthrown, positive, rank, ravaged,
     regretful, ruddy, ruined, ruinous, smutted, smutty,
     sorely disappointed, soured, spoiled, thwarted, undone,
     unmitigated, wasted, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, wrecked