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| 1. | [ adjective ] shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive | |
| Synonyms: | torn ripped rent | |
| Examples: | "an old blasted apple tree" "a tree rent by lightning" "cities torn by bombs" "earthquake-torn streets" |
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| Related terms: | damaged | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] made uninhabitable | |
| Synonyms: | desolated devastated ravaged ruined wasted desolate | |
| Examples: | "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare "a wasted landscape" |
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| Related terms: | destroyed | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] expletives used informally as intensifiers | |
| Synonyms: | damned darned goddamned goddam damn everlasting infernal blessed goddamn blamed deuced blame | |
| Examples: | "he's a blasted idiot" "it's a blamed shame" "not a blessed dime" "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing" "he's a damn fool" "an infernal nuisance" |
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| Related terms: | cursed | |
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blast blistered blaster blessed blastocyte Blust blastema bleached blest blighted blastemic blessedly blastemal blusterer bluestone blue_stem blastomere blastodisc blastoderm blastocele blister bluster blastopore blastocyst blast_wave blistery blocked bluestem blastula blastoma blastoff blasting blustery Blissett Blaustein blast_off blastular Blystone |
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