blasted en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈblæs.tɪd/ (Canada, US)
- /ˈblɑː.stɪd/ (UK)
- /ˈblaː.stɪd/ (Australia)
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Subjected to an explosion.
The remains of the blasted tank were testament to the power of the landmine it had hit.
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(not-comparable) Subjected to violent gusts of wind; storm-damaged.
a blasted tree
In the same way the blasted trunk on the left, in Turner's drawing of the spot where Harold fell at the battle of Hastings, takes, where its boughs first separate, the shape of the head of an arrow;
1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 4, in Modern Painters […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 6, page 189:
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(not-comparable, of a tree, qualifier:bush; etc; bush; etc) Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.
BLASTED : leafless, applied to trees. Argent, three scrogs, blasted, sable. Blastock of that Ilk.
1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 57:A modified form of this coat of arms, consisting of a blasted oak, with new branches growing out near the base, and an acorn suspended [...]
1914, Beatrice Bush, Genealogy of the Descendants of John M. Bush and Jane Osterhoudt of Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y., 1791-1914, page 7:
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(colloquial, not-comparable) Accursed; damned.
With the evidence before me, gathering each day I doahn't wind the blasted Watch,— even so, I can't believe in it…?
1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 320:I've tried for 2 hours to make this blasted part fit, and it still won’t go in.
“Whatever you do, don’t let that blasted woman in!”
2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:`I'm fed up with this blasted rot,' he exclaimed, as a general expression of emotion inspired by the Sabbath.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 9:You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!
1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 212:
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(not-comparable, slang) Intoxicated, drunk.
Dude, we got blasted last night.
Deriveds
Synonyms
drunk (intoxicated) · damned (cursed) · exploded (subjected to explosion)
Translations (31)
sv sabla (cursed) · fi lehdetön (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · sv bar (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · fi kirottu (cursed) · ro sterp (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · fi pahuksen (cursed) · ro mort (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · it maledetto (subjected to explosion) · sv fördömd (cursed) · fr effeuillé (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · ru проклятый (cursed) · sv bladlös (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · fr sec (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · ro despuiat de frunze (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · sv avlövad (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · sv jädrans (cursed) · ro blestemat (cursed) · de verflucht (cursed) · ro distrus (subjected to explosion) · sv nedrans (cursed) · fi räjähtänyt (subjected to explosion) · fr fichu (cursed) · ru взорванный (subjected to explosion) · fr mort (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · de verdammt (cursed) · ru окаянный (cursed) · ro afurisit (cursed) · sv naken (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · sv kal (heraldry, of a tree whose branches bear no leaves) · de vermaledeit (cursed) · mi ngingio (exposed to violent gusts of wind)