Meaning of BLASTED
| Pronunciation: | | 'blastid
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- [adj] expletives used informally as intensifiers; "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"; "tired or his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance"
- [adj] shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive; "an old blasted apple tree"; "a tree rent by lightning"; "cities torn by bombs"; "earthquake-torn streets"
- [adj] made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
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| | Synonyms: | | blame, blamed, blessed, cursed, curst, damaged, damn, damned, darned, desolate, desolated, destroyed, deuced, devastated, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal, ravaged, rent, ripped, ruined, torn, wasted |
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| | Definition: | | \Blast"ed\, a.
1. Blighted; withered.
Upon this blasted heath. --Shak.
2. Confounded; accursed; detestable.
Some of her own blasted gypsies. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. Rent open by an explosive.
The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote.
--Wordsworth.
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| | Related Terms: | | ausgespielt, baffled, balked, bankrupt, betrayed, bilked, blamed, blankety-blank, blessed, blighted, blown, broken, chapfallen, confounded, crestfallen, crossed, crushed, cursed, cussed, dadburned, danged, darned, dashed, defeated, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, deuced, devastated, disappointed, dished, disillusioned, dissatisfied, doggone, doggoned, done for, done in, down-and-out, fallen, finished, flyblown, foiled, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, frustrated, fusty, goldanged, goldarned, gone to pot, goshdarn, gross, ill done-by, ill-served, in ruins, irremediable, kaput, let down, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, out of countenance, outright, overthrown, positive, rank, ravaged, regretful, ruddy, ruined, ruinous, smutted, smutty, sorely disappointed, soured, spoiled, thwarted, undone, unmitigated, wasted, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, wrecked |
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