BLASTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blasted mean? 

• BLASTED (adjective)
  The adjective BLASTED has 1 sense:

1. expletives used informally as intensifiers

  Familiarity information: BLASTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLASTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Expletives used informally as intensifiers

Synonyms:

blame; blamed; blasted; blessed; damn; damned; darned; deuced; goddam; goddamn; goddamned; infernal

Context example:

an infernal nuisance

Similar:

cursed; curst (deserving a curse; sometimes used as an intensifier)

 Context examples 

His grip has been upon me these twenty years, and he has blasted my life.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But it was one of her progeny who blasted Maria's reputation by announcing that the grand visitors had been for her lodger.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"That large impact would have blasted enough material off the surface of Mars to form a ring," said Andrew Hesselbrock, a doctoral student at Purdue who helped develop the model.

(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)

Observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies.

(Stars Born in Winds from Supermassive Black Holes, ESO)

"You see that blasted redwood? Take the little trail turning off to the right. It's the short cut to her house. You can't miss it."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He went down past the blasted pine, crossed the open space, and trotted in amongst the trees.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Professor Schulze-Makuch believes it is possible a meteorite could have blasted off Earth and transported similar life to the moon.

(Life Could Exist on Moon 4 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

All three events, including the largest, most powerful eruption of the trio on Aug. 29, 2013, were likely characterized by curtains of fire as lava blasted out of fissures perhaps several miles long.

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)