blasted

[ blas-tid, blah-stid ]

/ ˈblæs tɪd, ˈblɑ stɪd /

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adjective

withered; shriveled; blighted; ruined.

damned; confounded: This blasted pen leaked all over my shirt.

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Origin of blasted

1545–55; blast (v.) + -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM blasted

un·blast·ed, adjective

Words nearby blasted

blasphemer, blasphemous, blasphemy, blast, blast cell, blasted, blastema, blast furnace, blast-furnace cement, -blastic, blasting

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How to use blasted in a sentence

He was kept in total darkness, kept cold, had music blasted at him and was shackled and hooded.
Inside the CIA’s Sadistic Dungeon|Tim Mak|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Abarca blasted him in the face and the chest with a shotgun.
Mexico’s First Lady of Murder Is on the Lam|Michael Daly|October 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Margaret, in the blasted shock of sudden loss, sold most of her possessions and moved to Florida.
Those Kansas City Blues: A Family History|Katie Baker|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bullets and richochets blasted through care windows and windshields.
How the U.S.-favored Kurds Abandoned the Yazidis when ISIS Attacked|Christine van den Toorn|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Almost 300 people were killed altogether when a missile blasted the commercial airliner out of the sky.
Inside the Battle to Crush Ukraine’s Rebel Capital as Dutch Search for MH17 Clues|Anna Nemtsova|July 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
The dam was completed, booms and cribbing placed, ledges blasted out well within the six months' period set for those operations.
Scattergood Baines|Clarence Budington Kelland
The oaks were either dead or dying, and the whole district had an inexpressibly blasted and weird appearance.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries|Charles G. Harper
The career of many a man has been blasted for ever by the utterance of cruel untruths or the repetition of vague suspicions.
The Doctor of Pimlico|William Le Queux
Lying there on the sidewalk, blasted for keeps, his wagon fixed, Wilson Lamb tried to put it together.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various

British Dictionary definitions for blasted

blasted

/ (ˈblɑːstɪd) /

adjective

blighted or withered

adjective, adverb (prenominal)

slang (intensifier)a blasted idiot

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blasted

Origin of blasted

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