blast off

Speech parts

1. blast off - Noun

2. blast off - Verb

Meaning

launch with great force

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

blast-off

Synonyms

dart gallop fly charge launch blast accelerate dash lift off take-off go all out burn rubber take wing floor it put pedal to the metal
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Antonyms

land arrive alight get down touch down come to rest
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Hypernyms

launch

Examples

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever. Anthony Burgess

the rockets were blasted off Source: Internet

— I traveled 1,300 miles by foot, car, subway, and two airplanes to watch a spaceship blast off into space. Source: Internet

In the Arctic, Canadian “iceberg cowboys” use rifles to blast off chunks of icebergs that are later sold to wineries, breweries and vodka distilleries. Source: Internet

The two are scheduled to blast off next Wednesday afternoon atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, bound for the International Space Station. Source: Internet

The launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where the mission will blast off — the same one used by the last shuttle mission in 2011 — has been rebuilt to handle Mr. Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

blast of a storm blast of sound blast of thunder blast on someone blast open blast out