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blast away

blast away verb: to destroy by blasting with explosives.

Verb

blast away (third-person singular simple present blasts away, present participle blasting away, simple past and past participle blasted away)

  1. (transitive) To destroy by blasting with explosives.
  2. (intransitive, usually) To continue shooting rapidly.
    • They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.
    • Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:15 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022

Forms of blast away

third-person singular presentblasts away
present participleblasting away
past participleblasted away
pastblasted away

Questions about blast away

What does blast away mean?
Blast away means to destroy by blasting with explosives.
What part of speech is blast away?
Blast away is a verb.
What is the past tense of blast away?
The past tense of blast away is blasted away.

Words near blast away in the dictionary

  1. Blassingame
  2. Blassingames
  3. blast
  4. blast 'em up
  5. blast 'em ups
  6. blast away
  7. blast beat
  8. blast beats
  9. blast cell
  10. blast cells
  11. blast chilling

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