blasted off; blasting off; blasts off
: take off sense 1b
—used especially of rocket-propelled missiles and vehicles
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Noun
the mission was scrubbed just minutes before blastoff
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William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025
Each day, there are Big Top performances at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., with a human cannonball blastoff at 1:45 p.m.
Admission costs $23 for teens and adults, $20 for seniors (ages 65 and up) and $15 for children (ages 5-12).
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Schwarber opened the scoring in the first inning with a blast off the second deck in right field — his 54th home run of the season.
—Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Crew 10 commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov were strapped in and ready for blastoff from historic pad 39 at the Kennedy Space Center at 7:48 p.m. EDT.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2025
Each day, there are Big Top performances at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., with a human cannonball blastoff at 1:45 p.m.
Admission costs $23 for teens and adults, $20 for seniors (ages 65 and up) and $15 for children (ages 5-12).
—Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 10 May 2024
Verb
In October 2021, Shatner, then 90, blasted off aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin New Shepard rocket for the NS-18 mission from West Texas’ Launch Site One.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Schwarber opened the scoring in the first inning with a blast off the second deck in right field — his 54th home run of the season.
—Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Blastoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blastoff. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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