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, 1 June 2024
Each day, there are Big Top performances at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., with a human cannonball blastoff at 1:45 p.m.
Admission costs $23 for teens and adults, $20 for seniors (ages 65 and up) and $15 for children (ages 5-12).
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
Shattering the afternoon calm with an ear-splitting roar, the huge 30-foot-wide, 397-foot-tall rocket blasted off from Musk's sprawling Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and test facility on the Gulf Coast near Brownsville at 5 p.m. EST, the opening of a 30-minute launch window.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Noun
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
Each day, there are Big Top performances at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., with a human cannonball blastoff at 1:45 p.m.
Admission costs $23 for teens and adults, $20 for seniors (ages 65 and up) and $15 for children (ages 5-12).
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
Verb
The Saturn, Apollo and space shuttles missions blasted off from this area.
—Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
Shattering the afternoon calm with an ear-splitting roar, the huge 30-foot-wide, 397-foot-tall rocket blasted off from Musk's sprawling Boca Chica, Texas, manufacturing and test facility on the Gulf Coast near Brownsville at 5 p.m. EST, the opening of a 30-minute launch window.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2024
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“Blastoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blastoff. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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