Blasting
['blɑːstɪŋ] or ['blæstɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; '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' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blast
(n.) A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.
(n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts.
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Examples
- For blasting purposes also it presents the promise of possible utilization. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This mode of drilling also effected a revolution in the art of blasting. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- In 1839 Colonel Pasley blew up the wreck of the Royal George by electro-blasting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When it is remembered that most of the 7? miles of tunnel was cut through solid rock, by boring and blasting, the immensity of the undertaking can be appreciated. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Here roared no utterance of Rome's thunders, no blasting of the breath of her displeasure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Having adjusted such spectacles the Commission proceeded to look at this curse which is more blasting than any plague or epidemic, at an evil which spells only ruin to the race. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As the rock drill made a revolution in blasting and tunnelling, so the Blake crusher revolutionised the art of road making. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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