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If something is b______ into a particular place or state, an explosion causes it to be in that place or state. If a hole is blasted in something, it is created by an explosion.If something is blasted into a particular place or state, an explosion causes it to be in that place or state. If a hole is blasted in something, it is created by an explosion.
There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.
...a terrible accident in which his left arm was blasted off by some kind of a bomb.
Earlier two holes were blasted into the ship's hull to let water out and stabilise the ferry.
The explosion which followed blasted out the external supporting wall of her flat.
word blast
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noun
A blast is a big explosion, especially one caused by a bomb .
250 people were killed in the blast.
If you say that something was a blast, you mean that you enjoyed it very much.
Making the album was a real blast.
verb
If something is blasted into a particular place or state, an explosion causes it to be in that place or state. If a hole is blasted in something, it is created by an explosion.
There is a risk that toxic chemicals might be blasted into the atmosphere.
...a terrible accident in which his left arm was blasted off by some kind of a bomb.
Earlier two holes were blasted into the ship's hull to let water out and stabilise the ferry.
The explosion which followed blasted out the external supporting wall of her flat.
If workers are blasting rock, they are using explosives to make holes in it or destroy it, for example so that a road or tunnel can be built.
Their work was taken up with boring and blasting rock with gelignite.
They're using dynamite to blast away rocks to put a road in.
Three miles away there was a salvo of blasting in the quarry.
To blast someone means to shoot them with a gun .
...a son who blasted his father to death after a life-time of bullying.
He was blasted with a sawn-off shotgun in Oldham on Thursday.
...the man who killed Nigel Davies with a shotgun blast.
If someone blasts their way somewhere, they get there by shooting at people or causing an explosion.
The police were reported to have blasted their way into the house using explosives.
One armoured column attempted to blast a path through a barricade of buses and trucks.
If something blasts water or air somewhere, it sends out a sudden, powerful stream of it.
Blasting cold air over it makes the water evaporate.
A blizzard was blasting great drifts of snow across the lake.
Blasts of cold air swept down from the mountains.
If you blast something such as a car horn, or if it blasts, it makes a sudden, loud sound. If something blasts music, or music blasts, the music is very loud.
...drivers who do not blast their horns.
The sound of western music blasted as she entered.
The buzzer suddenly responded in a long blast of sound.
You can say that a sports player blasts the ball somewhere if he or she gives it a powerful kick or hit .
Ramsay blasted the ball into the back of the net.
He may try to blast his way out of trouble, playing attacking shots.
To blast someone or something means to criticize them strongly.
exclamation
Some people say ' blast ' to show that they are annoyed at something or someone.
Blast! I can't do anything with this.
inflections blastsblastingblastedblasting
cefr-level C1

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