Usually means: Explosive force or strong impact.
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General (37 matching dictionaries)
  1. -blast, blast, blast-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -blast, blast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blast, blast-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -blast, blast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. blast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Blast, -blast, blast: Wordnik
  7. blast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BLAST, -blast, blast, blast-: Wiktionary
  9. -blast, blast, blast-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -blast, blast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. blast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -blast, blast, blast-: Dictionary.com
  13. blast: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blast: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BLAST (biotechnology), BLAST (journal), BLAST (magazine), BLAST (protocol), BLAST (telescope), BLAST, Bl'ast, Bl'ast, Blast (American band), Blast (U.S. magazine), Blast (album), Blast (disambiguation), Blast (magazine), Blast, The Blast (album), The Blast (band), The Blast (magazine), The Blast (song), The Blast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Blast, -blast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. blast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. blast: Rhymezone
  19. blast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. blast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. -blast, blast, blast-: MyWord.info
  22. BLAST: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Blast, Blast: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. blast: Free Dictionary
  25. blast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. blast: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. blast: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. blast: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  29. blast-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. -blast, blast-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BLAST (disambiguation), blast: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. blast: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BLAST: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. BLAST (disambiguation), Blast (blood), blast, blast-: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BLAST: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. blast: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  5. BLAST (disambiguation), Blast (blood), -blast, blast, blast(o)-, blast-: Medical dictionary
  6. BLAST: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BLAST: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. blast: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  3. BLAST: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  4. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  5. BLAST: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. blast, blast, blast, blast: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. blast (!): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Blast: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. Blast: 1960's Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. blast: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See blasted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A violent gust of wind.
noun:  A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
noun:  A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
noun:  The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
noun:  The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
noun:  An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
noun:  A verbal attack or punishment; a severe criticism or reprimand.
noun:  An explosive charge for blasting.
noun:  A loud, sudden sound.
noun:  A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
noun:  (figuratively, informal) A good time; an enjoyable moment.
noun:  (marketing) A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
noun:  A flatulent disease of sheep.
noun:  (bodybuilding, slang) A period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to a period of reduced intake.
verb:  (transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a loud noise.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To play (music) very loudly out of a speaker.
verb:  (transitive) To shatter, as if by an explosion.
verb:  (transitive) To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
verb:  (transitive) To curse; to damn.
verb:  (transitive, science fiction) To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
verb:  (soccer) To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
verb:  (transitive) To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
verb:  (transitive) To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
verb:  (transitive) To blight or wither.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be blighted or withered.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To blow, for example on a trumpet.
verb:  (bodybuilding, slang) To have a period of full dosage of PEDs as opposed to reducing them during a cruise period.
noun:  (cytology) An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
verb:  (biology, informal, transitive) To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
noun:  (biology) An algorithm which compares similarities between sequences of nucleotides in nucleic acids or of amino acids in proteins.
verb:  (biology, informal, transitive) Alternative letter-case form of blast (to run a sequence through BLAST) [(transitive) To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.]

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