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How to pronounce blast in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms boom, nail, smash
Type of hit
Type Words
Synonyms good time
Type of experience


celebrating after the game was a blast.
Type Words
Synonyms blow, gust
Type of current of air, wind, air current
Has types puff of air, bluster, puff, whiff, sandblast
Type Words
Synonyms blare
Type of noise, make noise, resound


She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone.
Type Words
Synonyms shoot
Type of fire, discharge
Has types sharpshoot, pump, open fire, blaze away, fire, gun, snipe, blaze, overshoot
Verb group hit, shoot, pip


the gunman blasted away.
Type Words
Synonyms shell
Type of bomb, bombard
Has types crump
Derivation blaster
Type Words
Synonyms knock down
Type of dash, smash
Type Words
Synonyms shell
Type of make, create


blast a passage through the mountain.
Type Words
Synonyms attack, fire, flack, flak
Type of unfavorable judgment, criticism
Type Words
Synonyms bam, bang, clap, eruption
Type of noise
Has types water hammer
Type Words
Synonyms crucify, pillory, savage
Type of criticise, criticize, knock, pick apart
Type Words
Type of explosion, detonation, blowup
Has types bomb blast
Type Words
Type of blow


the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us.
Type Words
Type of fly ball, fly
Type Words
Type of cut


blast a tunnel through the Alps.
Type Words
Type of shrivel up, wither, shrink, shrivel

Examples of blast

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Tension has been building up for a while, and now it could blast out of control.
From the sacbee.com
El-Amruni was hit in the blast and received shrapnel wounds in his leg and back.
From the sacbee.com
Conflicting reports indicate up to 10 people may have been wounded by the blast.
From the voanews.com
Four days after the blast, the Navy convened a court of inquiry to assign blame.
From the dispatch.com
The suspect was arrested in a park near the hotel shortly after the small blast.
From the online.wsj.com
O'Driscoll does not so much blast through tacklers, he drifts by and under them.
From the telegraph.co.uk
So powerful was the blast, Consalvi was temporarily laid out just by first base.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The most powerful blast ever observed in the universe was detected on Wednesday.
From the newscientist.com
The wagon has a 350 Chevy engine, is street legal and is a total blast to drive.
From the sfgate.com
More examples
  • A very long fly ball
  • Make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
  • Bang: a sudden very loud noise
  • Smash: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
  • Gust: a strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"
  • Use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
  • In bioinformatics, Basic Local Alignment Search Tool, or BLAST, is an algorithm for comparing primary biological sequence information, such as the amino-acid sequences of different proteins or the nucleotides of DNA sequences. ...
  • Blast is an album by the British musician Holly Johnson of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It was released in 1989 and reached number 1 in the UK charts and sold over 300,000 copies making it platinum. The album stayed on the charts for 17 weeks. ...
  • Blast (stylized as BL'AST!) was a California hardcore punk and rock band from Santa Cruz. The original lineup consisted of Clifford Dinsmore on vocals, Mike Neider and Steve Stevenson on guitars, Dave Cooper on bass, and Bill Torgerson on drums.