Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blasted"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Blast \Blast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Blasting}.]
1. To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to
stop or check the growth of, and prevent from
fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to
shrivel.
Seven thin ears, and blasted with the east wind.
--Gen. xii. 6.
2. Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague,
calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes
to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to
blast pride, hopes, or character.
I'll cross it, though it blast me. --Shak.
Blasted with excess of light. --T. Gray.
3. To confound by a loud blast or din.
Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's
ear. --Shak.
4. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder,
dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Blasted \Blast"ed\, a.
1. Blighted; withered.
Upon this blasted heath. --Shak.
2. Confounded; accursed; detestable.
Some of her own blasted gypsies. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. Rent open by an explosive.
The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote.
--Wordsworth.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
blasted
adj 1: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare;
"a wasted landscape" [syn: {desolate}, {desolated}, {devastated},
{ravaged}, {ruined}, {wasted}]
2: shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind
or lightning or explosive; "an old blasted apple tree"; "a
tree rent by lightning"; "cities torn by bombs";
"earthquake-torn streets" [syn: {rent}, {ripped}, {torn}]
3: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted
idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not
a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or
goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or
goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "tired or
his everlasting whimpering"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn:
{blame}, {blamed}, {blessed}, {damn}, {damned}, {darned},
{deuced}, {everlasting}, {goddam}, {goddamn}, {goddamned},
{infernal}]
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