Definition of "blasted"

In the same way the blasted trunk on the left, in Turner's drawing of the spot where Harold fell at the battle of Hastings, takes, where its boughs first separate, the shape of the head of an arrow;

1846, John Ruskin, chapter 4, in Modern Painters, volume II (part III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], § 6, page 189

BLASTED : leafless, applied to trees. Argent, three scrogs, blasted, sable. Blastock of that Ilk.

1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 57

A modified form of this coat of arms, consisting of a blasted oak, with new branches growing out near the base, and an acorn suspended [...]

1914, Beatrice Bush, Genealogy of the Descendants of John M. Bush and Jane Osterhoudt of Kingston, Ulster Co., N.Y., 1791-1914, page 7

You great fat, blasted, blear-eyed, blundering, thundering, brainless, God-forsaken, doddering, damned fool!

1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, page 212

`I'm fed up with this blasted rot,' he exclaimed, as a general expression of emotion inspired by the Sabbath.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 9

With the evidence before me, gathering each day I doahn't wind the blasted Watch,— even so, I can't believe in it…?

1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, part Two: America, page 320