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Differed and Blasted

(imp.&p.p.) of Differ.

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"
  • 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"
  • 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.
  • Shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly.

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"