## Meanings
1. To break or destroy something using explosives.
2. To send out air, sound, or water with great force.
3. To criticize someone or something very strongly.
4. To fire a gun or shoot at something.

## Examples
- Workers blasted a tunnel through the mountain.
- The air conditioning was blasting cold air at us.
- Newspapers blasted the government for its decision.
- The hunter blasted away at the targets.

## Derived Forms
- airblast
- antiblast
- ass-blast
- backblast
- beblast
- blast-off
- blastable
- blastaway
- blaster
- blasthole
- blastissimo
- blastment

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *bʰleh₁-
- Root: blast
- Root: blǣst
- Root: *blāstu
- Root: *blēstuz

## Etymology
From Middle English blast, blest, from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāstu, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”). Cognate with West Frisian blast (“blast”), dialectal Dutch blast (“stubborn intent, drumming”), obsolete German Blast (“wind, blowing”), German blasen (“to blow”), Dutch blazen (“to blow”), Danish blæst (“wind”), French blaser (“to blunt, dull”). More at blow.

## AI Etymology
Blast comes from Middle English blast, blest, from Old English blǣst (“blowing, blast”), from Proto-West Germanic *blāstu, from Proto-Germanic *blēstuz (“blowing, blast”). Cognate with West Frisian blast (“blast”), dialectal Dutch blast (“stubborn intent, drumming”), obsolete German Blast (“wind, blowing”), German blasen (“to blow”), Dutch blazen (“to blow”), Danish blæst (“wind”), French blaser (“to blunt, dull”). More at blow.

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