Definition of "sandblast" []

• A blast of air or steam carrying sand at high velocity to etch glass or to clean stone or metal surfaces. (noun)
• A machine used to apply such a blast. (noun)
• A strong wind carrying sand along. (noun)
• To apply a sandblast to (a building, for example). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The best way to do this is to sandblast the radiators."
• "My old apartment building, built by a great uncle's bankrupt family company, is getting a sandblast."
• "There is weight behind them, and the impact of the driven water is like a sandblast."