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blast
has definitions from the fields of baseball,meteorology,military
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[ verb ] make a strident sound
Synonyms Examples "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone" Used in print (The New York Times,...)Their secondary hero is another pro , Willie_Chisholm , who drank his lunch during another Open and tried to blast his way out of a rock strewn gully . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)From the east to the west coast of the Korean_peninsula was a strip of land in which fear filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night , sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound , or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)An old gentlemen next to me held a Boy_Scout bugle to his lips and blasted away at every fourth step and during the interim shouted_out , `` V for Victory '' ! Related terms |
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[ verb ] hit hard
Examples "He smashed a 3-run homer" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Lumpe worked a walk as the first batter to face Hyde and romped around as Siebern blasted Hyde 's next toss 415 feet over the scoreboard in right center . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)`` Virdon has been blasting the ball . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (baseball) a long and hard-hit fly ball
Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)In the ninth , Robinson led off with his second double of the night , a blast off the fence 375 feet deep into left . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)Al_Smith 's 340 - blast over left in the fourth - his fourth homer of the campaign - tied the score and Carreon 's first major_league home_run in the fifth put the Sox back in_front . |
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[ noun ] a sudden very loud noise
Synonyms Used in print (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)Andy_Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a highly pleasurable or exciting experience
Synonyms Examples "we had a good time at the party" "celebrating after the game was a blast" Related terms |
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[ noun ] an explosion (as of dynamite)
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