blasting

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English blastynge, equivalent to blast +‎ ing (present participle ending).

Verb

blasting

1. present participle and gerund of blast

   The TV is blasting. Please turn it down!

Etymology 2

From Middle English blastyng, blastynge, equivalent to blast +‎ -ing (gerundive ending).

Noun

blasting (plural blastings)

1. A planned explosion, as in mining.
   • 1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, in Trains Illustrated, page 754:

     But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.

2. The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 8:37:

     If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;

   • 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] ‎^[1], New York: American Publishing Company:

     They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]

3. (bodybuilding, slang) Administering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.

   Coordinate term: cruising

Anagrams

• batlings, stabling, tablings