blasted off; blasting off; blasts off
: take off sense 1b
—used especially of rocket-propelled missiles and vehicles
Examples of blastoff in a Sentence
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
Sally Ventura
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Honda is creating its own ‘space town’ Developed in-house by Honda R&D Company, the rocket—which weighs 2800 lbs or around the same weight as a small car—shot up vertically, blasting off using its four legs from the company’s test site in the northern island of Hokkaido.
—Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 22 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
Metcalf opened the outermost door of room 316, despite the doorknob having been blasted off, Kosidlo behind him, and stepped into the vestibule.
—Sally Ventura
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
Honda is creating its own ‘space town’ Developed in-house by Honda R&D Company, the rocket—which weighs 2800 lbs or around the same weight as a small car—shot up vertically, blasting off using its four legs from the company’s test site in the northern island of Hokkaido.
—Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
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“Blastoff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blastoff. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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