blast away
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[edit]blast away (third-person singular simple present blasts away, present participle blasting away, simple past and past participle blasted away)
- (transitive) To destroy by blasting with explosives.
- (intransitive, usually with at) To continue shooting rapidly.
- They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.
- 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:15 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
- Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay.