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blast
blast is a 5-letter English word with 30 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 30 senses
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- 1
A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation; as, bioblast, epiblast, mesoblast, etc.
- 2noun
A violent gust of wind.
- 3noun
A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace; as, to melt so many tons of iron at a blast.
- 4noun
The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
- 5noun
The sound made by blowing a wind instrument; strictly, the sound produces at one breath.
- 6noun
A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
- 7noun
The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; also, the charge used for this purpose.
- 8noun
A flatulent disease of sheep.
- 9transitive verb
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.
- 10transitive verb
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.
- 11transitive verb
To confound by a loud blast or din.
- 12transitive verb
To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
- 13intransitive verb
To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
- 14intransitive verb
To blow; to blow on a trumpet.
- 15noun
a very long fly ball
- 16noun
intense adverse criticism
"Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"
"the government has come under attack"
- 17noun
a highly pleasurable or exciting experience
"we had a good time at the party"
"celebrating after the game was a blast"
- 18noun
a sudden very loud noise
- 19noun
an explosion (as of dynamite)
- 20noun
a strong current of air
"the tree was bent almost double by the gust"
- 21verb
shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
- 22verb
shatter as if by explosion
- 23verb
criticize harshly or violently
"The press savaged the new President"
"The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
- 24verb
fire a shot
"the gunman blasted away"
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- 25verb
use explosives on
"The enemy has been shelling us all day"
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- 26verb
hit hard
"He smashed a 3-run homer"
- 27verb
make with or as if with an explosion
"blast a tunnel through the Alps"
- 28verb
create by using explosives
"blast a passage through the mountain"
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- 29verb
apply a draft or strong wind to to
"the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us"
- 30verb
make a strident sound
"She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
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