BLASTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blasting mean? 

• BLASTING (adjective)
  The adjective BLASTING has 2 senses:

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

2. unpleasantly loud and penetrating

  Familiarity information: BLASTING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLASTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

blasting; ruinous

Context example:

a ruinous war

Similar:

destructive (causing destruction or much damage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unpleasantly loud and penetrating

Synonyms:

blaring; blasting

Context example:

shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio

Similar:

loud (characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity)

 Context examples 

Dukono Volcano has been blasting ash above Helmahara Island and the surrounding waters since 2003.

(Plume from Dukono Volcano, Indonesia, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The hot young stars in this image are no more than two million years old and are blasting out streams of high-energy radiation.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

Supermassive black holes draw gas and matter into a disk around them, heating the disk to roaring temperatures of millions of degrees and blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet and X-ray light.

(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)

The closest-ever flybys by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal that the surfaces of these unusual moons are covered with material from the planet's rings - and from icy particles blasting out of Saturn's larger moon Enceladus.

(NASA's Cassini Finds Saturn's Rings Coat Tiny Moons, NASA)