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BLASTING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
Example:
a ruinous war
Synonyms:
blasting; ruinous
Classified under:
Similar:
destructive (causing destruction or much damage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unpleasantly loud and penetrating
Example:
shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio
Synonyms:
blaring; blasting
Classified under:
Similar:
loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb blast