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Synonyms for blasted

Verb

1. blast, blare, make noise, resound, noise
usage: make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
2. smash, nail, boom, blast, hit
usage: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
3. blast, shell, bombard, bomb
usage: use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"

Adjective

1. blasted, desolate, desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted, destroyed (vs. preserved)
usage: made uninhabitable; "upon this blasted heath"- Shakespeare; "a wasted landscape"
2. blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, everlasting, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal, cursed (vs. blessed), curst
usage: 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"
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