What is the meaning of blasting?

verb

• Make a strident sound.
  • usage: "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
  • synonyms: blast, blare
• Hit hard.
  • usage: "He smashed a 3-run homer"
  • synonyms: smash, nail, boom, blast
• Use explosives on.
  • usage: "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
  • synonyms: blast, shell
• Apply a draft or strong wind to to.
  • usage: "the air conditioning was blasting cold air at us"
  • synonyms: blast
• Create by using explosives.
  • usage: "blast a passage through the mountain"
  • synonyms: blast, shell
• Make with or as if with an explosion.
  • usage: "blast a tunnel through the Alps"
  • synonyms: blast
• Fire a shot.
  • usage: "the gunman blasted away"
  • synonyms: blast, shoot
• Criticize harshly or violently.
  • usage: "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
  • synonyms: savage, blast, pillory, crucify
• Shatter as if by explosion.
  • synonyms: blast, knock down
• Shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly.
  • synonyms: blast

adjective

• Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin.
  • usage: "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"
  • synonyms: ruinous
• Unpleasantly loud and penetrating.
  • usage: "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"
  • synonyms: blaring