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Noun blast has 6 senses
- blast - a long and hard-hit fly ball
--1 is a kind of fly, fly ball
- bang, clap, eruption, blast, loud noise - a sudden very loud noise
--2 is a kind of noise
--2 has particulars: water hammer
- gust, blast, blow - a strong current of air; "the tree was bent almost double by the gust"
--3 is a kind of wind, air current, current of air
--3 has particulars: bluster; sandblast; puff, puff of air, whiff
- blast - an explosion (as of dynamite)
--4 is a kind of explosion, detonation, blowup
--4 has particulars: bomb blast
- good time, blast - a highly pleasurable or exciting experience; "we had a good time at the party"; "celebrating after the game was a blast"
--5 is a kind of experience
- fire, attack, flak, flack, blast - intense adverse criticism; "Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party"; "the government has come under attack"; "don't give me any flak"
--6 is a kind of criticism, unfavorable judgment
Verb blast has 3 senses
- blast, blare - make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
--1 is one way to make noise, resound, noise
Sample sentences:
Cars blast in the streets
The streets blast with cars
- smash, nail, boom, blast - hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
--2 is one way to hit
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- blast, shell - use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
--3 is one way to bombard, bomb
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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