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upblast

upblast verb: to blast upward.

Verb

upblast (third-person singular simple present upblasts, present participle upblasting, simple past and past participle upblasted)

  1. To blast upward.
    • Outler had dashed some thirty feet when a shell upblasted mud and water in his face, and he slipped and toppled headforemost down a steep bank into a pond.1958, William T. Rochelle, Zareeba Purpose, page 105

Forms of upblast

third-person singular presentupblasts
present participleupblasting
past participleupblasted
pastupblasted

Origin of upblast

From up- + blast.

Questions about upblast

What does upblast mean?
Upblast means to blast upward.
What part of speech is upblast?
Upblast is a verb.
What is the past tense of upblast?
The past tense of upblast is upblasted.

Words near upblast in the dictionary

  1. upbidding
  2. upbids
  3. upbind
  4. upbinding
  5. upbinds
  6. upblast
  7. upblasted
  8. upblasting
  9. upblasts
  10. upblaze
  11. upblazed

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