DICTOMETER

BLASTING

1. Synonyms:
   • Blast
   • Blare
   Definitions:
   • make a strident sound
   Examples:
   • She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Smash
   • Nail
   • Boom
   • Blast
   Definitions:
   • hit hard
   Examples:
   • He smashed a 3-run homer
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Blast
   • Shell
   Definitions:
   • use explosives on
   Examples:
   • The enemy has been shelling us all day
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Blast
   Definitions:
   • apply a draft or strong wind to to
   Examples:
   • The air conditioning was blasting cold air at us
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Blast
   • Shell
   Definitions:
   • create by using explosives
   Examples:
   • Blast a passage through the mountain
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Blast
   Definitions:
   • make with or as if with an explosion
   Examples:
   • Blast a tunnel through the Alps
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Blast
   • Shoot
   Definitions:
   • fire a shot
   Examples:
   • The gunman blasted away
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Savage
   • Blast
   • Pillory
   • Crucify
   Definitions:
   • criticize harshly or violently
   Examples:
   • The press savaged the new President
   • The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Blast
   • Knock down
   Definitions:
   • shatter as if by explosion
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Blast
    Definitions:
    • shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Blasting
   • Ruinous
   Definitions:
   • causing injury or blight
   • especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
   Examples:
   • 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
   • A ruinous war
   Antonyms:
   • Constructive
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Blaring
   • Blasting
   Definitions:
   • unpleasantly loud and penetrating
   Examples:
   • The blaring noise of trumpets
   • Shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio
   Antonyms:
   • Soft