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Blaze   /bleɪz/   Listen
Blaze

noun
1.
A strong flame that burns brightly.  Synonym: blazing.
2.
A cause of difficulty and suffering.  Synonym: hell.  "Go to blazes"
3.
Noisy and unrestrained mischief.  Synonym: hell.
4.
A light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted.  Synonyms: brilliance, glare.
5.
A light-colored marking.  "The horse had a blaze between its eyes"
verb
(past & past part. blazed; pres. part. blazing)
1.
Shine brightly and intensively.
2.
Shoot rapidly and repeatedly.  Synonym: blaze away.
3.
Burn brightly and intensely.
4.
Move rapidly and as if blazing.  Synonym: blaze out.
5.
Indicate by marking trees with blazes.



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"Blaze" Quotes from Famous Books



... is my heaven of delight And my hell of affliction the loss of thy sight. My soul be thy ransom! If love be my crime For thee, my offence, of a truth, is not light. Doth passion blaze up in thy heart like to mine? I suffer the torments of hell day ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume III • Anonymous

... There was a blaze of scarlet on her cheeks and her eyes flashed fire, but she stood up straight and defiant, when another child might have broken down and cried. Chilian Leverett always remembered the picture she ...
— A Little Girl in Old Salem • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... says Mr. Bucket. "That makes a difference. Now I think of it," says Mr. Bucket, warming his hands and looking pleasantly at the blaze, "she went out walking the very ...
— Bleak House • Charles Dickens

... not, indeed, see around me now, all the stars of the intellectual firmament? Are not SIRIUS and ARCTURUS here, in their glory, as well as ORION and the rest? As my old friend CRISPIN would say, their name is legion! I would blaze, gentlemen, too, if possible, in honor of the occasion; but, as I can't Comet, meteors fall in ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 7, May 14, 1870 • Various

... can manage that!" the Captain said. "Get a heap of dried leaves here first, then some wood, and we will soon have a blaze." ...
— Colonel Thorndyke's Secret • G. A. Henty


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