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adj. profane, impious, irreverent, disrespectful, sacrilegious,
irreligious, sinful, wicked, evil, iniquitous: He was
excommunicated for his blasphemous writings.
blast n. 1 blow, gust, wind, gale: The door opened and a blast of
icy air made us shiver. 2 blare, sound, noise, racket, din,
bellow, roar; boom: At the trumpet-blast thousands of Goths
descended screaming on the camp. 3 explosion, burst, eruption,
discharge; detonation: A blast of dynamite levelled all the
houses in the vicinity. 4 (at or in) full blast. fully, at full
tilt, at the maximum, completely, thoroughly, entirely,
maximally, Slang with no holds barred, US to the max: The
factory was going full blast before the strike.
--v. 5 blow up, explode, dynamite, demolish, destroy, ruin,
waste, lay waste, shatter, devastate: The pillbox was blasted
out of existence by our guns. 6 defame, discredit, denounce,
criticize, attack; ruin, destroy: The candidate has been
blasted by the press. 7 curse, damn: The minister continued to
blast the proposal till the legislature dropped it.
blatant adj. 1 obvious, flagrant, palpable, obtrusive, arrant,
shameless, unashamed, brazen, overt, glaring: Those hooligans
have shown a blatant disregard for the law. 2 noisy, clamorous,
loud, bellowing, strident, vociferous, rowdy, boisterous,
obstreperous, uproarious: The blatant radical faction insists
on making itself heard.
blaze n. 1 flame, fire, holocaust, inferno, conflagration: The fuel
barrels exploded, feeding the blaze. 2 outburst, eruption,
flare-up: Her speech fanned the Lower House into a blaze of
resentment. 3 light, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, glow:
The blaze of lamps lit up the whole square.
--v. 4 burn, flare up, flame: In a few minutes the logs were
blazing merrily. 5 blaze away (at). fire, shoot, open fire,
blast; bombard, shell: The enemy appeared, and we just blazed
away at them.
bleach v. 1 whiten, lighten, fade, blanch, blench, Technical etiolate:
My jeans are all bleached by the sun.
--n. 2 whitener, chlorine: Add a little bleach to the laundry.