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Princeton's WordNet

  1. blasting, ruinousadjective

    causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin

    "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"

  2. blaring, blastingadjective

    unpleasantly loud and penetrating

    "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"

Wiktionary

  1. blastingnoun

    A planned explosion, as in mining.

ChatGPT

  1. blasting

    Blasting refers to the process of using explosives to break or displace rock or other heavy material, typically during construction or mining operations. It is a controlled usage of explosives often applied in demolition, field excavation, and quarrying. Alternatively, in the context of manufacturing, blasting can refer to the method of cleaning or smoothing a surface by applying high-pressure force, often with sand or tiny beads.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Blasting

    of Blast

  2. Blastingnoun

    a blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause

  3. Blastingnoun

    the act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. blasting

    The displacement of earth or rock by the use of an explosive. One of the most important parts of the art of mining in its various branches of tunneling, shaft-boring, well-digging, submarine mining, etc. The explosive is ordinarily placed in a bore hole, but in submarine mining this is sometimes dispensed with when a high explosive like nitro-glycerine is used.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of blasting in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of blasting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of blasting in a Sentence

  1. Republican Gov. Mike Pence:

    Gov. Pence has done the right thing, i think if you -- if they actually got briefed on the law that they wouldn't be blasting this law.

  2. Robert Ndetei:

    Before construction started in the park the lions were not escaping, so there are indications that the noise and blasting is affecting their movements, if you don’t plan properly, if you don’t do proper environmental impact assessments, then you are doomed to fail and at the Nairobi National Park this could lead to more lions and other animals coming into contact with a growing human presence.

  3. Joey Jackson:

    How does he ever get a fair trial when Jussie Smollett have the superintendent going on' Good Morning America' blasting him, you have wonder whether or not they overplayed their hand.

  4. Gavin Heffernan:

    The 25-30 second exposures reveal more stars and planets up above, they also magnify the lights on the ground, so even cities 100 miles away were blasting out our photos with floods of light.

  5. Ed Shimon:

    It's significantly earlier than we normally would see a change in the jet stream, we actually have a cold front already blasting down to Florida and off the Gulf Coast ... so records are being broken all over the place.

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