单词	wildfire
释义	wildfirewild‧fire /ˈwaɪldfaɪə $ -faɪr/ noun [countable, uncountable] especially American English Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Another wildfire movement was liberation theology, expressed in Base Ecclesiastical Communities. It arrived in our town by word of mouth and crackled like wildfire through the grapevine of gab and gossip. It was the sort of story that would spread like wildfire. Late Monday, the wildfire was still out of control. That wildfire feeling might have got a hold a month back, but it would not be allowed to do so again. The giggling spread like wildfire, and eventually forced the closing of some schools. The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court. Word of it spread like wildfire among geophysicists. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► spread like wildfire (=spread extremely quickly)· The news spread like wildfire through the town. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB► spread · The slander spread like wildfire and was only checked when the drunk who invented it confessed in a magistrates court.· Word of it spread like wildfire among geophysicists.· The news had spread like wildfire.· Not all of these students would be involved in work-based learning even if the movement spread like wildfire, but many would.· With the spectre of a ruinous trade war looming which could spread like wildfire round the world.· When low performance leads to an organizational crisis, rumors of executive malfeasance spread like wildfire among rank-and-file members.· But on the streets the book's reputation spread like wildfire, selling thousands of copies in Brixton alone. a fire that moves quickly and cannot be controlled → spread like wildfire at spread1(2)
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