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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Paramount, in a statement, blasted the lawsuit from the state attorneys general, saying it “reflects a fundamentally flawed application of the antitrust laws and is wrong on both the facts and the law.”
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
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
Newcastle's Nick Woltemade also was denied by Gill and, despite being given a lifeline with two Paraguay failures, Tah then blasted his attempt over, before defender Jose Canale sealed Paraguay's victory.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The drums that had led me here blasted from one of the cars in the lot and my heartbeat fell into rhythm with them.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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