4. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
BLAST
Blast, v. i.
1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.
2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. [Obs.] Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.
BLASTED
Blast"ed, a.
1. Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak.
2. Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.
3. Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.
BLASTEMA
Blas*te"ma, n.; pl. Blastemata. Etym: [Gr. bud, sprout.] (Biol.)
Defn: The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.