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, 17 Jan. 2025
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
Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center two weeks late because of space station leak concerns.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 June 2025
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Noun
The Super Heavy-Starship on its Gulf Coast launch pad Thursday being fueled for blastoff.
—William Harwood, CBS News, 17 Jan. 2025
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
Verb
Well, except for the one blasting off the circular stage.
—Melonee Hurt, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
SpaceX’s Falcon rocket blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center two weeks late because of space station leak concerns.
—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 25 June 2025
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“Blastoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blastoff. Accessed 17 Jul. 2025.
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