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blast off

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blast (something) off (something else)
to remove something from something else with a powerful charge, pressure, or force. They blasted the writing off the wall with a stream of sand. We will have to blast the paint off the wall.
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blast off (for some place)

1. [for a space vehicle] to take off and head toward a destination. The rocket blasted off for the moon. Will it blast off on time?
2. Sl. [for someone] to leave for a destination quickly. Ann blasted off for the library so she could study. I've got to blast off. It's late.
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The business failure was a company with the now-ironic name of Blast Off Corp.
The West Virginia-based Coal River Mountain Watch works to prevent such disasters and has recently focused its efforts primarily on "mountaintop removal" mining operations, which blast off the tops of peaks to get at underlying coal deposits.
managing just one shot on goal -- Claudio Reyna's blast off the left post in the opener against the Czech Republic -- and scoring only when Italian defender Cristian Zaccardo turned the ball into his own net.
 
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