blasted

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English

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A blasted tree, in a 1581 work on heraldry.

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blasted

  1. simple past and past participle of blast

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blasted (not comparable)

  1. Subjected to an explosion.
    The remains of the blasted tank were testament to the power of the landmine it had hit.
  2. Subjected to violent gusts of wind; storm-damaged.
    a blasted tree
    • 1846, [John Ruskin], chapter 4, in Modern Painters [], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., [], →OCLC, part III (Of Ideas of Beauty), section II (Of the Imaginative Faculty), § 6, page 189:
      In the same way the blasted trunk on the left, in Turner's drawing of the spot where Harold fell at the battle of Hastings, takes, where its boughs first separate, the shape of the head of an arrow;
  3. (heraldry, of a tree, bush, etc) Whose branches bear no leaves; leafless.
    • 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 57:
      BLASTED : leafless, applied to trees.
      Argent, three scrogs, blasted, sable. Blastock of that Ilk.
    • 1914, Beatrice Bush, Genealogy of the Descendants of John M. Bush and Jane Osterhoudt of Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y., 1791-1914, page 7:
      A modified form of this coat of arms, consisting of a blasted oak, with new branches growing out near the base, and an acorn suspended [...]
  4. (colloquial) Accursed; damned.
    I've tried for 2 hours to make this blasted part fit, and it still won’t go in.
  5. (slang) Intoxicated, drunk.
    Dude, we got blasted last night.

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Adverb

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blasted (comparative more blasted, superlative most blasted)

  1. (colloquial) Damned; extremely.
    That dog is so blasted stubborn.

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