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blasted (adj.)

O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,

Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

John Milton (1608-1674): Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough.

He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time:

The living throne, the sapphire blaze,

Where angels tremble while they gaze,

He saw; but blasted with excess of light,

Closed his eyes in endless night.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): The Progress of Poesy. III. 2, Line 4.