blasting

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noun

A planned explosion, as in mining.

“The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!”

Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

blasting1

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of blast

    The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!

blasting2

nounblasting (plural blastings)

plural blastings

  1. A planned explosion, as in mining.

    But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.

    1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754
  2. 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 Company
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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;

    1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:37
  3. slangbodybuildingAdministering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.

BLASTing3

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of BLAST

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivecausing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin

adjectiveunpleasantly loud and penetrating

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

blasting · verb

  1. Middle Englishblastynge
  2. Englishblasting

From Middle English blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (present participle ending).

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blasting · noun

  1. Middle Englishblastyng
  2. Englishblasting

From Middle English blastyng, blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (gerundive ending).

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