Blast

1. n. A flatulent disease of sheep.
2. v. t. To injure, as by a noxious wind; to cause to wither; to stop or check the growth of, and prevent from fruit-bearing, by some pernicious influence; to blight; to shrivel.
3. v. t. Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail; to visit with a curse; to curse; to ruin; as, to blast pride, hopes, or character.
4. v. t. To confound by a loud blast or din.
5. v. t. To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc.; to shatter; as, to blast rocks.
6. v. i. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.