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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



... their cares and became as young in spirit as the boys and girls. Jokes, stories and good-humored banter passed back and forth until with one accord everybody rose from the table and sauntered into the library where a great blaze ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... suddenly to blaze up in Stanley Rees. He cast a furious glance at the man whose fingers had twisted ...
— The Profiteers • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... ships vanish, and the drowning shriek of mortals and the rejoicing laugh of fiends are heard, and the old hulls are left as a memorial that the old spiritual kingdom has not departed from the earth. But I maun away, and trim my little cottage fire, and make it burn and blaze up bonnie, to warm the crickets, and my cold and crazy bones, that maun soon be laid aneath the green sod in the eerie kirkyard." And away the old dame tottered to her cottage, secured the door on the inside, and soon the hearth-flame ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
... his labours. The next thing was to light a fire—a comfort which he had not enjoyed for many weary days. Not that he required it for warmth, for the weather was extremely warm, but he required it to cook with, and the mere sight of a blaze in a dark place is a most heart-cheering thing, as ...
— The Dog Crusoe and His Master - A Story of Adventure in the Western Prairies • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... there is a mill on fire somewhere, sure enough by the light, and it will be a rare blaze, for there's not a drop o' water to be got. And much Carsons will care, for they're well insured, and the machines are a' th' oud-fashioned kind. See if they don't think it a fine thing for themselves. They'll not thank them as tries to ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell


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