Upblast

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To blast upward.

    "Outler had dashed some thirty feet when a shell upblasted mud and water in his face, and he slipped and toppled headforemost down a steep bank into a pond."

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"Outler had dashed some thirty feet when a shell upblasted mud and water in his face, and he slipped and toppled headforemost down a steep bank into a pond."

Etymology

From up- + blast.

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