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Synonyms for blast

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for blast

a natural movement or current of air

an earsplitting, explosive noise

a violent release of confined energy, usually accompanied by a loud sound and shock waves

a big, exuberant party

to release or cause to release energy suddenly and violently, especially with a loud noise

to make an earsplitting explosive noise

to spoil or destroy

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Synonyms for blast

a very long fly ball

a sudden very loud noise

an explosion (as of dynamite)

a highly pleasurable or exciting experience

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intense adverse criticism

make a strident sound

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hit hard

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use explosives on

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apply a draft or strong wind to to

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create by using explosives

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make with or as if with an explosion

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criticize harshly or violently

shatter as if by explosion

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shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly

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Giving an update about the injured persons in the blast, a hospital spokesman said that additional SHO of City police station Mirza Shafaat who had sustained serious injuries in the blast was now out of danger and his condition was improving.
Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan while strongly condemning the Quetta blast has directed that the injured should be provided every possible medical facility.
The Deputy Superintendent of Police Mubeen Parhiar said that it was a local made cracker type blast occurred near garbage dump along side main railway track.
Security forces and bomb disposal squad reached the site of the blast and cordoned off the area.
The Guyson Multiblast RXS400 machine is a twin spindle rotating indexing blast system which provides two driven work spindles at opposite ends of a rotary arm.
The blast, in front of the deputy commissioner's office on Friday night, killed two people and injured 10.
A plume of smoke rose due to the blast while a dozen vehicle, two dozen motorbikes and many shops were destroyed due to the intensity of the blast.
According to the DIG, the killed person was a scavenger who was collecting garbage at the site where the blast occurred.
"There are a number of cost-effective uses for drones to improve blast optimization, including profiling and blast design, pre- and post-blast analysis, in situ and blasted volumes, and muck pile cross sections and uniformity."
[43] reported that particle velocities of 0.5 in/s from typical blasting (1s vibration) had to be tolerable to about 95% of the people perceiving it as "distinctly perceptible." They pointed out also to the importance of the blast duration in forming of human response.