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Princeton's WordNet
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"
blaring, blastingadjective
unpleasantly loud and penetrating
"the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"
Wiktionary
blastingnoun
A planned explosion, as in mining.
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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
Blasting
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Blastingnoun
a blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause
Blastingnoun
the act or process of one who, or that which, blasts; the business of one who blasts
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Blasting in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Blasting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Blasting in a Sentence
Portland Conservation Director Bob Sallinger:
I think the word slaughter here is truly appropriate, we're talking about federal agents on boats blasting cormorants out of the sky with shotguns.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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