Meanings
- not comparableBlasting, making a loud noise.
Still steaming toward the battleship, / Fogarty Feegan keeps his little guns ablast.
1942, Gene Fowler, “The Jervis Bay Goes Down”, in Charles G. D. Roberts, editor, Flying Colours, Toronto: The Ryerson Press, page 1092 more examples
[…] their real metier is the giddy tenth-rate circus, ablast with drums and the roaring of wild beasts, the snuffling of freaks, and the shrieking mirth of the vulgar.
1907, T. W. H. Crosland, The Abounding American, London: A. F. Thompson, page 110The radio was ablast with call-in voices, they’re griping, they’re spraying spit […]
1997, Don DeLillo, chapter 3, in Underworld, New York: Scribner, page 167Synonyms: ablare
- not comparableBurning intensely; (of a furnace) subject to a continuous blast of hot air. (of fire)
So the next golden or profitable rule of the system soon suggested itself, viz. while you kept literary fire all ablast and crackling, to have a number of irons heating in it.
1882, Percy Fitzgerald, chapter 2, in Recreations of a Literary Man, volume 1, London: Chatto and Windus, pages 30–312 more examples
[…] John Williamson […] had spent his time and money on a process for transmuting base metals into gold. […] For months his furnace had been kept ablast, and at last the hour of the supreme test had drawn near.
1908, Francis Downman, “Romney”, in Great English Painters, Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs, page 132[He] constantly played with matches which, he said, he “stole” from his mother, who smoked all day long. The heat they produced cracked the ashtray one day where he set ablast his mother’s pyre symbolically.
1962, Hertha Riese, chapter 8, in Heal the Hurt Child, University of Chicago Press, page 306Synonyms: ablaze
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBlasting, making a loud noise.
adjectiveBurning intensely; (of a furnace) subject to a continuous blast of hot air. (of fire)
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ablast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ablast
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