blast

n

1. gust, flaw, windflaw, flurry, high or stiff wind, whirlwind; squall, gale, blow, storm, tempest.

2. blare, honk, bellow, bray, blat, trumpet, toot; wail, shriek, screech, scream; peal, clang; noise, racket, din, clamor.

3. explosion, discharge, detonation; crash, roar, boom, burst, eruption; rumble, roll, thunder, fulmina-tion; flash, flare, fulguration; shot, crack, report; volley, salvo, fusillade.

4. blight, curse, bane, scourge, visitation, stroke, affliction; plague, pestilence, pest, infestation.

v

5. blare, trumpet, bugle, blat, bray; honk, toot, beep; shriek, screech, scream, wail; sound, peal.

6. ruin, destroy, blight, waste, lay waste, devastate, ravage; annihilate, exterminate, extirpate, eradicate, wipe or blot out.

7. demolish, blow up, blow to pieces, blow sky high; explode, detonate, discharge, go off, burst, boom, thunder, roar.

8. discredit, disprove, invalidate, belie, give the lie to, shoot or poke full of holes, knock the bottom out of.

9. curse, damn, confound, execrate, imprecate, curse up hill and down dale.