Synonyms:
blasting, ruinous
Meaning: causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"
Usage examples
Hannibal, whose business it is to get into Italy from Gaul, sets about blasting the Alps.
It saved fuel to turn without power, and he wasn't sure he could have turned accurately by blasting.
This fatal event, however, seemed to be a stream of woe poured into my cup of afflictions, filling it even to overflowing, and blasting all my prospects.