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say it: BLA-sting
blasting is an adjective meaning "causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin". It is pronounced /ˈblæstɪŋ/ — BLA-sting. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
unpleasantly loud and penetrating
“the blaring noise of trumpets”
“shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blasting come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.