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blastings

blastings is the plural of blasting.

Meaning of blasting

Noun

blasting (plural blastings)

  1. A planned explosion, as in mining.
    • But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754
  2. The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
    • If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:37
  3. (slang) Administering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.

Phrases with blastings

Questions about blastings

What is blastings the plural of?
Blastings is the plural of blasting.

Words near blastings in the dictionary

  1. blasting gelatine
  2. blasting off
  3. blasting out
  4. blasting up
  5. blastingly
  6. blastings
  7. blastissimo
  8. blastment
  9. blastments
  10. blasto
  11. blasto-

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