What does blast away mean?

blast away

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

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verb

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"They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down."
"Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay."

blasts away (present, singular) blasting away (participle, present) blasted away (participle, past) blasted away (past)

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