blasting
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English blastynge, equivalent to blast + ing (present participle ending).
Verb[edit]
blasting
- present participle of blast
- The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English blastyng, blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (gerundive ending).
Noun[edit]
blasting (plural blastings)
- A planned explosion, as in mining.
- 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:
- But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.
- The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:37:
- 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;
- 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] [1], New York: American Publishing Company:
- They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]