blazeverb [ I ]
uk/bleɪz/us/bleɪz/to burn brightly and strongly:
The sun was blazing down that afternoon.
literary to be brightly lit or full of colour:
Isaac's eyes suddenly blazed with anger.
When a gun or a person using a gun blazes, the gun fires and continues firing:
The ship's guns blazed at the British as they tried to run for shore.
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Burning, burnt & on fire
- ablaze
- alight
- burned out
- burnt
- burnt out
- burst
- char
- flame
- flammable
- forest fire
- frazzled
- go up in flames idiom
- incinerate
- inextinguishable
- scald
- sear
- singe
- smoke
- smolder
- spontaneous combustion
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Giving out light
Idiom(s)
blaze a trail
blazenoun [ C ]
uk/bleɪz/us/bleɪz/blaze noun [ C ] (FIRE)
a large, strong fire:
Firefighters took two hours to control the blaze.
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Fire & flame
- beacon
- bonfire
- brand
- bush fire
- campfire
- conflagration
- fire
- fireball
- firepit
- firestorm
- flame
- flare
- inferno
- open fire
- open fireplace
- pilot
- spark
- wildfire
blaze noun [ C ] (STRONG EFFECT)
a blaze of sth
something that has a very powerful or noticeable effect:
The garden is a blaze of colour in autumn.
His book was launched in a blaze of publicity.
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- scale sth up
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
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blaze noun [ C ] (MARK)
a white mark on the face of a horse or other animal
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Descriptions of animal (non-human) markings
- bay
- camouflage
- chestnut
- coloration
- marmalade cat
- palomino
- piebald
- pied
- roan
- skewbald
- spotted
- tabby
Idiom(s)
go to blazes
what the blazes...?