blasting

A planned explosion, as in mining.

But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.

The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;

They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]

Administering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.