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Definition of flaming in English: flamingadjective ˈfleɪmɪŋˈfleɪmɪŋ 1attributive Burning fiercely and emitting flames. they dragged her away from the flaming car Example sentencesExamples - She saw them burning buildings, with flaming torches in their hands and astride their monstrous steed.
- Very few domestic rooms have the proportions of a grand hall that are needed to carry off one of those huge wrought-iron chandeliers sporting fiercely flaming torches.
- One night I dined outside on exquisite chilled cucumber soup and chicken tikka, in the flickering light of flaming torches.
- The flaming car was stuck in the corner of the street, mixed along with a few other cars.
- When carried aloft in the form of a flaming torch, a light is a symbol of victory and leadership.
- Flames licked the old branches and pebble-sized balls of flaming ash littered the stage.
- My mother and father were sitting by the flaming fire chatting quietly.
- When his vision had cleared, he saw his father standing motionless in the doorway, staring at the flaming wreck of the car.
- Nibs takes a flaming stick from the fire to light his cigar.
- People gather on the shore and archers fire flaming arrows at his boat.
- They grabbed the hose from a junior firefighter and aimed it at three flaming cars in the car park to prevent an explosion.
- Using felled trees, flaming tyres and cars, residents blocked entry to several towns.
- The stage was quickly transformed into a flaming inferno.
- Witnesses near Lake Constance reported hearing a loud explosion and seeing a ball of fire and flaming pieces of wreckage crashing towards the ground.
- The 12 soldiers, supported by a team of specialist fire fighters from the Royal Navy, doused the flaming car with foam and bought the blaze under control.
- NTV showed pictures of the flaming wreckage of a car at a crossroads in the capital.
- Jeff had read between the journalist's lines, and seen the pictures of flaming cars in the south.
- The point of the training will be to create more flair at the bar, but not the kind that involves flipping bottle and flaming drinks, he says.
- Dom raised his flaming torch to the closest unlit one on the wall.
- They fell to the ground, flames licking around their flaming bodies.
Synonyms blazing, ablaze, burning, on fire, afire, in flames, aflame ignited, lit, lighted fiery, red-hot, raging, flaring glowing, flickering, smouldering - 1.1 Very hot.
Example sentencesExamples - Ted held a flaming poker close to Stephanie, who delivered her lines in a Mississippi drawl.
- It would rain water one minute and summer weather like flaming coals the next, the heat from the sun beating on its victim.
- This time last year few thought things could get any worse and that an early summer soaking would be the prelude to a flaming June.
- This means they swing from the cold outer reaches of space to make a close pass by the flaming surface of the star, and those close passes may serve as sterilisation events for the surface of the planet.
Synonyms very warm, balmy, summery, tropical, boiling, boiling hot, blazing hot, baking, scorching, roasting, searing, parching, blistering, oven-like - 1.2 Of a bright orange or red colour.
Example sentencesExamples - And though his flaming hair was no match, he looked as though he was a giant.
- He's short but not too short, thin but not anemic, and his red hair is bright without being flaming.
- Up the bare trunks of trees were grown passion flowers, flaming nasturtiums, jasmine, and honeysuckles to finish the picturesque scene.
- Suddenly, an image appeared in the darkness; a single image of a bright flaming sphere being towed by a fleet of familiar lumpy space ships.
- I glanced worriedly at Rora, her long flaming hair covered her face that was tilted towards the cold ground.
- His hair was flaming like her own, and he crookedly smiled his recognition.
- The shackles had fallen away and reflected the glow of the man's flaming hair.
- There's magic in any family vacation with beautiful beaches, balmy trade-winds, and flaming sunsets.
- Harris had Marcia's flaming hair, her fair skin, and her constantly shifting hazel eyes.
- It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’.
- Adelaide stuck out horribly there, with her flaming hair and green outfit.
- Out of the darkness of the sky there appeared many bright, flaming lights.
- The dark girl looks back at the guy with flaming hair then she looks back at the stage.
- It was enough to start the trees turning and although we might mourn the passing of summer, cool clear autumn days filled with flaming trees are amongst the most beautiful of the year.
- The older girl slipped in and began to remove her jacket, taking a pause to shake her head free of snowflakes, though only in vain as they clung to her flaming hair.
- Her eyes went round as saucers at that thought that came out of nowhere, and hastily ducked her head, hoping her hair covered her flaming cheeks.
- Sahara blushed and leaned over her horse's neck, her long red-brown hair falling over her flaming cheeks.
- She's already dressed, already pancaked with makeup, and her flaming hair has already been fussed with until even Angela is happy with it.
- The lines and the wrinkles weren't there before, and the flaming hair had been cropped short.
- She remembers pine trees, huge lakes surrounded with rock, flaming autumn colours and winters that left her cold six months of the year.
Synonyms bright, brilliant, vivid, flamboyant red, reddish-orange, scarlet, crimson, ginger - 1.3 Passionate or violent.
Example sentencesExamples - Both had a flaming passion for weaponry, and this place had fuel aplenty.
- The burning winds of fundamentalism, the flaming anger of impressionable youth, claim many a victim.
- I think someone might have either a very long wait, or a flaming row.
- All the major protagonists have volatile relationships with one another, thus their encounters crackle with heated discussions and flaming arguments.
- Once again, his simple gestures fueled a flaming battle between my heart and my mind.
Synonyms furious, violent, vehement, frenzied, angry, incensed, passionate, raging furious, enraged, fuming, seething, incensed, infuriated, mad, angry, raging, wrathful, irate informal livid, wild British informal, dated waxy
2British informal attributive Used for emphasis to express annoyance. where's that flaming taxi? Example sentencesExamples - Even the much lauded Henrik Larsson looks more keen on setting up than sticking the damned ball in the flaming net.
- But for many other people, they are a flaming nuisance.
- Barak had stopped chasing him for the moment, but that didn't mean he was prepared to listen to the flaming nuisance.
- I felt slightly mollified by the fact that it hadn't all been my fault, although I was still flaming angry at Andrew for his sneaky, malicious trick.
Synonyms wretched, unspeakable, rotten, hellish, cursed, accursed informal damned, damnable, blasted, blessed, precious, confounded, infernal British informal flipping, blinking, blooming, blimming, bleeding, effing, chuffing British informal, dated bally, ruddy, deuced 3North American derogatory, informal (of a gay man) having a manner or appearance regarded as stereotypically homosexual.
Definition of flaming in US English: flamingadjectiveˈfleɪmɪŋˈflāmiNG 1attributive Burning fiercely and emitting flames. they dragged her away from the flaming car Example sentencesExamples - The 12 soldiers, supported by a team of specialist fire fighters from the Royal Navy, doused the flaming car with foam and bought the blaze under control.
- My mother and father were sitting by the flaming fire chatting quietly.
- People gather on the shore and archers fire flaming arrows at his boat.
- Flames licked the old branches and pebble-sized balls of flaming ash littered the stage.
- Nibs takes a flaming stick from the fire to light his cigar.
- Witnesses near Lake Constance reported hearing a loud explosion and seeing a ball of fire and flaming pieces of wreckage crashing towards the ground.
- They grabbed the hose from a junior firefighter and aimed it at three flaming cars in the car park to prevent an explosion.
- One night I dined outside on exquisite chilled cucumber soup and chicken tikka, in the flickering light of flaming torches.
- The stage was quickly transformed into a flaming inferno.
- When his vision had cleared, he saw his father standing motionless in the doorway, staring at the flaming wreck of the car.
- She saw them burning buildings, with flaming torches in their hands and astride their monstrous steed.
- Dom raised his flaming torch to the closest unlit one on the wall.
- Very few domestic rooms have the proportions of a grand hall that are needed to carry off one of those huge wrought-iron chandeliers sporting fiercely flaming torches.
- Using felled trees, flaming tyres and cars, residents blocked entry to several towns.
- When carried aloft in the form of a flaming torch, a light is a symbol of victory and leadership.
- NTV showed pictures of the flaming wreckage of a car at a crossroads in the capital.
- The flaming car was stuck in the corner of the street, mixed along with a few other cars.
- They fell to the ground, flames licking around their flaming bodies.
- The point of the training will be to create more flair at the bar, but not the kind that involves flipping bottle and flaming drinks, he says.
- Jeff had read between the journalist's lines, and seen the pictures of flaming cars in the south.
Synonyms blazing, ablaze, burning, on fire, afire, in flames, aflame - 1.1 Very hot.
Example sentencesExamples - It would rain water one minute and summer weather like flaming coals the next, the heat from the sun beating on its victim.
- This means they swing from the cold outer reaches of space to make a close pass by the flaming surface of the star, and those close passes may serve as sterilisation events for the surface of the planet.
- This time last year few thought things could get any worse and that an early summer soaking would be the prelude to a flaming June.
- Ted held a flaming poker close to Stephanie, who delivered her lines in a Mississippi drawl.
Synonyms very warm, balmy, summery, tropical, boiling, boiling hot, blazing hot, baking, scorching, roasting, searing, parching, blistering, oven-like - 1.2 Of a bright orange or red color.
the flaming autumn maples of the St. Lawrence River valley Example sentencesExamples - There's magic in any family vacation with beautiful beaches, balmy trade-winds, and flaming sunsets.
- Sahara blushed and leaned over her horse's neck, her long red-brown hair falling over her flaming cheeks.
- And though his flaming hair was no match, he looked as though he was a giant.
- It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’.
- I glanced worriedly at Rora, her long flaming hair covered her face that was tilted towards the cold ground.
- She remembers pine trees, huge lakes surrounded with rock, flaming autumn colours and winters that left her cold six months of the year.
- Up the bare trunks of trees were grown passion flowers, flaming nasturtiums, jasmine, and honeysuckles to finish the picturesque scene.
- The lines and the wrinkles weren't there before, and the flaming hair had been cropped short.
- Out of the darkness of the sky there appeared many bright, flaming lights.
- The older girl slipped in and began to remove her jacket, taking a pause to shake her head free of snowflakes, though only in vain as they clung to her flaming hair.
- Her eyes went round as saucers at that thought that came out of nowhere, and hastily ducked her head, hoping her hair covered her flaming cheeks.
- The shackles had fallen away and reflected the glow of the man's flaming hair.
- The dark girl looks back at the guy with flaming hair then she looks back at the stage.
- He's short but not too short, thin but not anemic, and his red hair is bright without being flaming.
- His hair was flaming like her own, and he crookedly smiled his recognition.
- Suddenly, an image appeared in the darkness; a single image of a bright flaming sphere being towed by a fleet of familiar lumpy space ships.
- It was enough to start the trees turning and although we might mourn the passing of summer, cool clear autumn days filled with flaming trees are amongst the most beautiful of the year.
- Adelaide stuck out horribly there, with her flaming hair and green outfit.
- She's already dressed, already pancaked with makeup, and her flaming hair has already been fussed with until even Angela is happy with it.
- Harris had Marcia's flaming hair, her fair skin, and her constantly shifting hazel eyes.
Synonyms bright, brilliant, vivid, flamboyant - 1.3 Passionate or violent.
I'm a flaming liberal, but I don't hate conservatives Example sentencesExamples - Both had a flaming passion for weaponry, and this place had fuel aplenty.
- I think someone might have either a very long wait, or a flaming row.
- The burning winds of fundamentalism, the flaming anger of impressionable youth, claim many a victim.
- Once again, his simple gestures fueled a flaming battle between my heart and my mind.
- All the major protagonists have volatile relationships with one another, thus their encounters crackle with heated discussions and flaming arguments.
Synonyms furious, violent, vehement, frenzied, angry, incensed, passionate, raging furious, enraged, fuming, seething, incensed, infuriated, mad, angry, raging, wrathful, irate
2British informal attributive Used for emphasis to express annoyance. weeds can become a flaming nuisance Example sentencesExamples - Even the much lauded Henrik Larsson looks more keen on setting up than sticking the damned ball in the flaming net.
- I felt slightly mollified by the fact that it hadn't all been my fault, although I was still flaming angry at Andrew for his sneaky, malicious trick.
- But for many other people, they are a flaming nuisance.
- Barak had stopped chasing him for the moment, but that didn't mean he was prepared to listen to the flaming nuisance.
Synonyms wretched, unspeakable, rotten, hellish, cursed, accursed 3North American derogatory, informal (of a gay man) having a manner or appearance regarded as stereotypically homosexual.
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