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Flame

noun

The process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke. Synonyms: fire, flaming.

verb

(past & past part. flamed; pres. part. flaming)

Shine with a sudden light. Synonym: flare.

Be in flames or aflame.

Criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium.

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— Ballads of Peace in War • Michael Earls

... a fraction of a second. Both maids began to scream then, so Orion did not wait to get his whole wardrobe. He started with such parts of it as he could grab. He flew to the head of the stairs and started down, and was paralyzed again at that point, because he saw the faint yellow flame of a candle soaring up the stairs from below and he judged that Dr. G. was behind it, and he was. He had no clothes on to speak of, but no matter, he was well enough fixed for an occasion like this, because he had a butcher-knife ...

— Chapters from My Autobiography • Mark Twain

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— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling

... flame showed him a curving passage hewn smoothly through the heart of bedrock. Before the flare died he walked twenty feet, and as another match burned to his fingers, he found the right hand curve of the passage giving way to a left hand twist. After that he dared use no more of his precious matches. ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various

... the Canada shore up past the Clifton House, towards the Burning Spring, which is not the least wonder of Niagara. As each bubble breaks upon the troubled surface, and yields its flash of infernal flame and its whiff of sulphurous stench, it seems hardly strange that the Neutral Nation should have revered the cataract as a demon; and another subtle spell (not to be broken even by the business- like composure of the man who shows off the ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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