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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



... teach you with pleasure,—only not now, for we must hurry. I'll slip the frock over your head without disturbing a hair, and then we'll go down, for I want a bit of a blaze on the hearth in the living-room, to offset ...
— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond
... grasses, while a luminous haze dimmed the dark glint of the waters to pearly gray, softened the grimness of the mountain-faces and wrapped them—sea and mountains, as soul and body in a vision of mystery, a prelude to the blaze of golden glory that was suddenly ...
— The Royal Pawn of Venice - A Romance of Cyprus • Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
... the matter came before the House of Lords, he would bestow the degree of attention on it which his lordship bestowed on all matters of importance. Working himself us as he drew near his peroration, he broke out into a blaze of eloquence which put the Lord Mayor into some fear on account of the Thames, of which he is official conservator. "The thing cannot last!" he exclaimed; "and if you don't, in less than two years from this time, say ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various
... account of the canvas it would be just the same as if I were in bed. On second thought I asked her to hand in some toast—or bread and butter and bloater paste—at the same time. I fed the fire with judgment, and the copper boiled just as the last blaze died down. I got a pail and carried the water to the bath, pouring it in through the opening at the head. The last few pints I dipped into the pail with a cup. I covered the opening with a towel to keep the steam and heat in until I was ready. I ...
— The Rising of the Court • Henry Lawson
... There was a grassy level spit, a background of evergreen giant-fir timber, and clear, cool water gushing out from the bank near by. And such fuel for the camp fire!—broken limbs with just enough pitch to make a cheerful blaze and yet body enough to last well. We felt so happy that we were almost glad the journey had ...
— Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail • Ezra Meeker


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