BLAST Copy link • BLAST 1. impetus venti; ventua, flamen (violent blowing): flatus (blowing; also of favorable winds: flabra, plur., gentle blowing, sometimes puffs of wind; poetical). Of an instrument, flamen; sonitus; clangor. Stroke of a planet, etc., tactus, afflatus (e.g., solis, lunae, etc.). Of lightning, fulmen (so the blasts of fortune, fnlmina fortunae). In the widest sense, fulmen, ictus calamitatis, ventus, calamitas, casus adversus. Of disease, contagio. Of corn, sideratio, robigo, uredo (mildew, smut). 2. v. ruin, delere (destroy, blot out): subvertere, evertere (overthrow): perdere (destroy): pervertere: to blast anybody’s reputation, alicui infamiam movere; aliquem infamare or diffamare; aliquem variis rumoribus differre (to circulate reports against him): to blast one’s hopes, spem exstinguero. Blight, terrere, urere, adurere, robigine corrumpere, robigine or uredine afficere. Blasted heaths, deserta et sterilia tesqua. Compare BLIGHT.