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BLAST OFF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Launch with great force
Example:
the rockets were blasted off
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "blast off" is one way to...):
launch (propel with force)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
blastoff (the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination)
