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Synonyms for blasted

Grammar : Adj
Spell : blas-tid, blah-stid
Phonetic Transcription : ˈblæs tɪd, ˈblɑ stɪd

Définition of blasted

Origin :
  • "stricken by malignant forces (natural or supernatural), cursed, blighted," 1550s, from blast (v.), with the notion of "balefully breathed upon." In the sense of "cursed, damned" it is attested from 1680s. Meaning "drunk or stoned" dates from 1972 (blast (v.) "smoke marijuana" attested from 1959).
  • adj damned
Example sentences :
  • Cities which were decades in the building are blasted out of being in a night.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
  • All I know is that there they stood, blasted and dead every one of them.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • I say they are, but I like 'em all the same, and that only shows what a blasted hole I'm in.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • Thirty feet above the lone man in the torpoon was the hole he had blasted in the ice.
  • Extract from : « Under Arctic Ice » by H.G. Winter
  • Told as Hugo would have told it, surely it must have blasted for ever the name of a good man.
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
  • But the fond hopes which prompted this address were destined to be blasted.
  • Extract from : « Three Years in the Federal Cavalry » by Willard Glazier
  • She had had youth to help her, and even she had been blasted.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • The leech looked like a field of lava now, a blasted spot on the green Earth.
  • Extract from : « The Leech » by Phillips Barbee
  • By this time the skaters were half way on the return from the blasted pine.
  • Extract from : « The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • The happiness of more than one life had been blasted as by a stroke of lightning.
  • Extract from : « Nell, of Shorne Mills » by Charles Garvice

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