blasted

[ blas-tid, blah-stid ]
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adjective
  1. withered; shriveled; blighted; ruined.

  2. damned; confounded: This blasted pen leaked all over my shirt.

Origin of blasted

1
1545–55; blast (v.) + -ed2

Other words from blasted

  • un·blast·ed, adjective

Words Nearby blasted

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How to use blasted in a sentence

  • "Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • The dam was completed, booms and cribbing placed, ledges blasted out well within the six months' period set for those operations.

    Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington Kelland
  • The oaks were either dead or dying, and the whole district had an inexpressibly blasted and weird appearance.

  • The career of many a man has been blasted for ever by the utterance of cruel untruths or the repetition of vague suspicions.

    The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux
  • Lying there on the sidewalk, blasted for keeps, his wagon fixed, Wilson Lamb tried to put it together.

British Dictionary definitions for blasted

blasted

/ (ˈblɑːstɪd) /


adjective
  1. blighted or withered

adjective, adverb(prenominal)
  1. slang (intensifier): a blasted idiot

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