blasted off

verb

Definition of blasted offnext
past tense of blast off
as in took off

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blasted off
  1. zoomed
  2. elevated
  3. ballooned
  4. scaled
Verb
  • Fast fashion trends zoomed by, and vintage stores got more curated.
    Alyssa Hardy, Vogue, 28 Dec. 2024
  • As the sky turned blazing orange, our Zodiac zoomed past green sea turtles, whose heads would pop above the surface and then vanish.
    Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of zoomed
Verb
  • This has truly elevated the destination to a global stage, resulting in an influx of visitors from the US.
    Roger Sands, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
  • This gown can easily be dressed down for your next vacation or elevated for your next black tie event.
    Amazon, refinery29.com, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of elevated
Verb
  • Its follower count ballooned from 43 to more than 6,300.
    Sam Blum, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Yet, in a land whose ancient Greek forebears coined the notion of hubris as a potent ingredient of tragedy, both developments contributed to a crippling debt crisis that raised questions about Greek membership in the European Union and ballooned into a broader crisis across the eurozone.
    Alan Cowell, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of ballooned
Verb
  • Deportation efforts remained significantly scaled back throughout 2024 compared to levels seen in 2023 and 2022.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 4 Jan. 2025
  • This snippet from a structure-formation simulation, with the expansion of the Universe scaled out, represents billions of years of gravitational growth in a dark matter-rich Universe.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of scaled
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