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Etymology

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up- +‎ blast

Verb

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upblast (third-person singular simple present upblasts, present participle upblasting, simple past and past participle upblasted)

  1. To blast upward.
    • 1958, William T. Rochelle, Zareeba Purpose, page 105:
      Outler had dashed some thirty feet when a shell upblasted mud and water in his face, and he slipped and toppled headforemost down a steep bank into a pond.