Differed and Blasted
(imp.&p.p.) of Differ.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Make a strident sound.
- usage: "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
- Hit hard.
- usage: "He smashed a 3-run homer"
- Use explosives on.
- usage: "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
- Apply a draft or strong wind to to.
- usage: "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us"
- synonyms: blast
- Create by using explosives.
- usage: "blast a passage through the mountain"
- Make with or as if with an explosion.
- usage: "blast a tunnel through the Alps"
- synonyms: blast
- Fire a shot.
- usage: "the gunman blasted away"
- Criticize harshly or violently.
- usage: "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
- Shatter as if by explosion.
- synonyms: blast, knock down
- Shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly.
- synonyms: blast
adjective
- Expletives used informally as intensifiers)
- usage: "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned. fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (a.) Rent open by an explosive.
- (a.) Blighted; withered.
- (imp.&p.p.) of Blast.
- (a.) Confounded; accursed; detestable.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary