blasted
Americanadjective
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withered; shriveled; blighted; ruined.
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damned; confounded.
This blasted pen leaked all over my shirt.
adjective
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Example Sentences
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The highlights of the early cases are canonically familiar: the blasted monochrome landscapes of C.R.W.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
After a surprise layoff by a fintech company five months ago, Abernathy blasted out a bunch of resumes, but that didn’t turn up much.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 11, 2026
While many in the United States joined the president in celebrating the reversal, others blasted its adverse impact on the integrity of the sport.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Farah's model suggests that some of the material blasted outward by the explosion later fell back toward the newborn magnetar, forming an accretion disk.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
“The Bahn Frei Polka” by Eduard Strauss—with the trumpet call to the racetrack starting gate that blasted as a preamble—would jolt him awake if he’d begun to nod off.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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