blasted off; blasting off; blasts off
: take off sense 1b
—used especially of rocket-propelled missiles and vehicles
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Noun
the mission was scrubbed just minutes before blastoff
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William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
Boeing's Starliner crew capsule, perched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, stands poised for blastoff from pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (file photo).
—William Harwood, CBS News, 1 June 2024
Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Research blasts off towards future space factory development NASA.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The Super Heavy-Starship on its Gulf Coast launch pad Thursday being fueled for blastoff.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
Boeing's Starliner crew capsule, perched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket, stands poised for blastoff from pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (file photo).
—William Harwood, CBS News, 1 June 2024
Verb
In 2018, Parker watched from Cape Canaveral as the Parker Solar Probe blasted off for the outer corona of the sun.
—Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025
Research blasts off towards future space factory development NASA.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Blastoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blastoff. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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