The Clue
Dynamiter's activity (8 letter answer)
The Answer
BLASTING
Tags
Notes
The answer BLASTING is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
BLAST as a verb:
1. (blast, blare) = make a strident sound; "She tended to blast when speaking into a microphone"
2. (smash, nail, boom, blast) = hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer"
3. (blast, shell) = use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
BLASTING as an adjective:
1. (blasting, ruinous) = causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"
2. (blaring, blasting) = unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio"