What is the meaning of the word "blast"?

Definitions:

to apply a draft or strong wind to verb
- The air conditioning was blasting cold air at us.
to create by using explosives verb
- We should blast a passage through the mountain.
to criticize harshly or violently verb
- I blasted them for their cruel statements.
to fire a shot verb
- The gunman blasted away.
to hit hard verb
- The cops blasted the protestors with a water cannon.
to make a strident sound verb
- They tended to blast when speaking into a microphone.
to shatter as if by explosion verb
- We blasted the mountain clean away, to teach it a lesson.
to shrivel, wither or mature imperfectly verb
- The plant blasted.
to use explosives on verb
- I blasted the pile of old computers with joy.