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blasting en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From Middle English blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (present participle ending).

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of blast
    form of blast
    • The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!

blasting en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Middle English blastyng, blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (gerundive ending).

Meanings

  1. A planned explosion, as in mining.
    • But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced. 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:
  2. The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
    • They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […] 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
    • If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be; 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:37:
  3. (slang) Administering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.

Forms

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blastings Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

cruising

Deriveds

microblasting · blasting cap · blastingly · abrasive blasting