I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bomb blast/explosion
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The restaurant was destroyed in a massive bomb blast.
a rush/blast/stream of air
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There was a cold rush of air as she wound down her window.
blast furnace
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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They're certainly not over-fond of me, probably because my central heating is always on full blast in winter.
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By then, Second Brother had gone inside and turned the radio up full blast .
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But the team, with their sirens and blue lights on full blast , raced on unaware of their own emergency.
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He sometimes turned on the radio full blast , for example.
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Even Reeves's younger brother, under the full blast of a howitzer shell, had stood a better chance.
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And at that moment, the air-conditioning goes off, and the heat is turned up full blast .
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She made herself a high tea, put the gas fire on full blast and sat with a tray in front of the television.
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At Ninety-sixth Street they ascended together into the full blast of Broadway.
icy
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For letterboxes, look out for seals with brushes which will prevent an icy blast when the post is delivered.
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We sat in the icy blast and ordered pizza.
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Cold air or icy blasts may cause chapping.
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In the first icy transatlantic blast , he pointedly refused to meet Premier John Major, who visits Washington later this month.
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She shrank inwards as an icy blast of air enveloped her.
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She got out and shivered in an icy blast which struck right through her anorak.
nuclear
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Running as the street collapsed behind her, running as if from Sodom and Gomorrah, from a nuclear blast .
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In the past, Livermore scientists studied those mini-explosions to better understand the physics of nuclear weapons blasts .
short
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You can also splash out on extra nitro-injectors, giving a short but effective blast of speed.
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Three short blasts of a steam whistle warned him the ferry was about to depart.
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Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground.
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Another short blast and the school moved off to the various classrooms.
■ NOUN
air
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Yosemite air blasts are much rarer than large landslides, he noted.
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A landslide of 600, 000 cubic yards of granite occurred in the park in 1987 but caused no air blast .
bomb
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Then a bomb blast devastated the theatre and wiped away her smile of anticipation.
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This, investigators say, links him to the truck bomb blast .
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Tuesday's mortar bomb blast left him with three chunks of shrapnel in his abdomen.
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They've always taken a special interest in Sefton because of the bomb blast .
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Sefton was badly injured in the bomb blast in Hyde Park in nineteen eighty-two, but survived.
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The bomb blast fractured the ventilating system and spewed dust particles along the system throughout the hospital.
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Another bomb blast was reported on a railway line outside Cape Town.
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The bomb blasts in Moscow last August remain unsolved.
furnace
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Traditionally, iron oxide is converted to the metal in a blast furnace .
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Engineers have told us that the blast furnaces are at risk.
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Its bank of five blast furnaces and the unusual water balance tower can still be seen.
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I haven't got a snowflake's chance in a blast furnace with Helen while he's around.
shotgun
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The cause of death was a shotgun blast at close range, and police are now investigating the illegal killing.
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They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts .
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He was killed by a shotgun blast while supposedly resisting arrest.
■ VERB
injure
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Besides the three deaths, 23 people were injured in the blasts , including 12 aboard an airplane in 1979.
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Other settlements were reached with some of the 21 injured in the blast .
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Mrs Vickers's husband Paul, 37, and four-year-old daughter Hannah were injured in the blast .
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Sefton was badly injured in the bomb blast in Hyde Park in nineteen eighty-two, but survived.
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No one was injured in the blast which wrecked one car and damaged several others at Wood Park station.
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Scores more were seriously injured as the blast scattered human remains across stalls in one of Bosnia's worst atrocities.
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Suspected rebels last week planted a bomb outside the prime minister's home, although no one was injured in the blast .
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No one else was injured in the blast .
kill
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They were coming again; coming to kill and maim and blast and burn.
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He was killed by a shotgun blast while supposedly resisting arrest.
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Fifty fishermen are killed instantaneously by the blast .
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About 40, 000 people are killed by the blast wave.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(at) full blast
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And at that moment, the air-conditioning goes off, and the heat is turned up full blast.
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At Ninety-sixth Street they ascended together into the full blast of Broadway.
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But the team, with their sirens and blue lights on full blast, raced on unaware of their own emergency.
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By then, Second Brother had gone inside and turned the radio up full blast.
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Even Reeves's younger brother, under the full blast of a howitzer shell, had stood a better chance.
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He sometimes turned on the radio full blast, for example.
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She made herself a high tea, put the gas fire on full blast and sat with a tray in front of the television.
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They're certainly not over-fond of me, probably because my central heating is always on full blast in winter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a shotgun blast
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Every window in the building had been shattered by the force of the blast .
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Thanks for taking us camping - Miranda had a blast !
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The blast killed 168 people and wounded hundreds.
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The blast was heard three miles away.
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The referee gave a blast on his whistle and we were off.
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You should try water-skiing - it's a blast .
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At Batavia and Buitenzorg, the blast blew in dozens of windows, and even cracked walls.
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Fires are ignited as far as seventy-eight kilometers from the blast .
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For letterboxes, look out for seals with brushes which will prevent an icy blast when the post is delivered.
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He opened it and the blast disfigured his face and cost him an eye and three fingers.
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Suddenly the plate-glass window shook with a blast of noise as two motorcycles roared down the street.
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The blast shook buildings across the street and could be heard at least two miles away.
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The cause of death was a shotgun blast at close range, and police are now investigating the illegal killing.
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The force of the blast blew the roof off the white taxi van and shattered the windscreens of passing vehicles.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rock
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Mr Glen said the bypass would have to be blasted out of solid rock .
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Across the fiat bottom a series of deeper pockets had been blasted into the rock .
shotgun
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Another guy, he took a shotgun and blasted four secretaries at Adelphi College.
way
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They just blasted their way in.
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Thirteen hundred workmen were blasting their way , day and night, through the solid rock, 160 feet below the town.
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With no preparation, he blasted his way around the monster 7,289-yard course in a superb 69.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a radio blasting out music
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A storm blasted the Florida coast with 75 m.p.h. winds.
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Environmental groups blasted the plan for more logging in the area.
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Music blasted from the speakers in the living room.
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Newman blasted one into left field in the second inning.
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Several Allied planes were blasted out of the sky.
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The Seahawks were blasted 35-14 by the Broncos at the start of the season.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A machine gun blasted just outside the tent.
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Atlantis is to blast off on a nine-day mission to Mir on March 21.
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He looked at me, then my bike, and without returning the gesture, twisted the throttle to blast away.
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He wished he hadn't blasted so many beers.
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Now, perhaps, the bombshell that blasted Dole and his campaign out of the doldrums will blast the Republicans into unity.
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That same day the rocks were blasted to fragments and removed.
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Voice over Derby had one more chance to balance the books but Paul Kitson wasted a glorious opportunity by blasting wide.
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With no preparation, he blasted his way around the monster 7,289-yard course in a superb 69.