blasted
Americanadjective
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withered; shriveled; blighted; ruined.
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damned; confounded.
This blasted pen leaked all over my shirt.
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The impact blasted debris as far as 10,000 kilometers into space and shortened the asteroid's orbital period around Didymos by roughly 33 minutes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Yelich hasn’t appeared in as many games for Milwaukee as Robin Yount, racked up as many hits as Paul Moilitor or blasted as many home runs as Prince Fielder or Ryan Braun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
It used a downforce-generating fan system to remain stuck upside down, and then blasted free, flipped—this was the flying part—and touched down amid a cloud of compressed air.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Talarico reshared the center's post and quipped that he had "never even been to Ohio," while his press secretary blasted the claims as "a pathetic conspiracy theory."
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Lightning blasted a crater where the voice had been speaking.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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