blast away

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blast away (third-person singular simple present blasts away, present participle blasting away, simple past and past participle blasted away)

1. (transitive) To destroy by blasting with explosives.
2. (intransitive, usually with at) To continue shooting rapidly.

   They were blasting away at each other for 10 minutes before the shooting died down.

   • 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:15 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎^[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:

     Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay.