Blast
Blast verb - Use explosives on.
How words are described
| similar | similar blast | similar shell |
| green | green blast | green shell |
| single | single blast | single shell |
| stray | stray blast | stray shell |
| Other adjectives: blank, heavy, small, massive, large, big, huge, cold, explosive, last, spherical, giant, magical. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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It is a cluster of nine nukes, each surrounded by a shell that, when the bomb goes off, briefly compresses each of the nine explosions to neutron-star density, giving each blast a 100x boost.
Source: Earth-Shattering Kaboom - The song seems to trail off normally, only to be punctuated by a shotgun blast, followed by the metallic ring of an ejected shell hitting the ground.
Source: Last Note Nightmare - The Imperial's secret weapon, the Nova cannon, is a heavy long-range cannon which fires a massive shell which explodes destroying any ship for kilometres around the blast.
Source: Faction Calculus
Cite this Source
Shell and Blast. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/blast/shell
Blast & Shell. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/blast/shell>.
Shell or Blast. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/blast/shell.
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