Meanings
blasting1
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of blast
The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!
blasting2
plural blastings
- The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
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 […]
1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company1 more example
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;
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:37 - slangbodybuildingAdministering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.
BLASTing3
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of BLAST
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecausing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
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Origin
blasting · verb
- Middle Englishblastynge
- Englishblasting
From Middle English blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (present participle ending).
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Full word history & related roots →blasting · noun
- Middle Englishblastyng
- Englishblasting
From Middle English blastyng, blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (gerundive ending).
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
blasting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blasting
“blasting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blasting. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blasting,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blasting.
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