Blast
Blast verb - To proceed or move quickly.
Usage example: rowdy teenagers blasting down the road in a sports car
Poke
Poke verb - To extend outward beyond a usual point.
How words are described
| good | good blast | good poke |
| original | original blast | original poke |
| light | light blast | light poke |
| single | single blast | single poke |
| Other adjectives: painful, powerful, potent, weak, quick, fatal, damaging, random, occasional. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- So when, long after hostilities between the Terrans and Orions have ended, an Orion starship happens to poke its nose into their star system, they blast the "devils" to smithereens.
Source: Tabletop Game / Starfire - Pointy Ears: Relmitos is an elf after all... Poke in the Third Eye: Done quite literally and with extreme overkill when Avalanche and Sharimnir combine their powers to blast the future-seeing demon Shu'Sharradin's head in half with a holy lazor.
Source: Roleplay / Dark Before The Dawn
Cite this Source
Poke and Blast. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/blast/poke
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