"blast away" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blasts away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blasting away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blasted away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blasted away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "blast away (third-person singular simple present blasts away, present participle blasting away, simple past and past participle blasted away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To destroy by blasting with explosives."
      ],
      "id": "en-blast_away-en-verb-AVFAKHxa",
      "links": [
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ],
        [
          "blast",
          "blast"
        ],
        [
          "explosive",
          "explosive"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To destroy by blasting with explosives."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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          "_dis": "49 51",
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Violence",
          "orig": "en:Violence",
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            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:15 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03",
          "text": "Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue shooting rapidly."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "shoot",
          "shoot"
        ],
        [
          "rapidly",
          "rapidly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, usually with at) To continue shooting rapidly."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with at"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "usually"
      ]
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  "word": "blast away"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blasts away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blasting away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blasted away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "blasted away",
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        "past"
      ]
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To destroy by blasting with explosives."
      ],
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        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ],
        [
          "blast",
          "blast"
        ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To destroy by blasting with explosives."
      ],
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      ]
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          "text": "They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:15 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 2022-11-03",
          "text": "Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To continue shooting rapidly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shoot",
          "shoot"
        ],
        [
          "rapidly",
          "rapidly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, usually with at) To continue shooting rapidly."
      ],
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        "with at"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "blast away"
}