Noun
A planned explosion, as in mining.
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But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.
The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
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If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;
They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]
Administering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.
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Adjective
causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
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the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit
the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces
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a ruinous war
unpleasantly loud and penetrating
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the blaring noise of trumpets
shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio