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BLAZE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Noisy and unrestrained mischief

Example:

raising blazes

Synonyms:

blaze; hell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

devilment; devilry; deviltry; mischief; mischief-making; mischievousness; rascality; roguery; roguishness; shenanigan (reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A light-colored marking

Example:

the horse had a blaze between its eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

marking (a pattern of marks)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted

Example:

a glare of sunlight

Synonyms:

blaze; brilliance; glare

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

Derivation:

blaze (shine brightly and intensively)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A cause of difficulty and suffering

Example:

go to blazes

Synonyms:

blaze; hell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

trouble (an event causing distress or pain)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A strong flame that burns brightly

Example:

the blaze spread rapidly

Synonyms:

blaze; blazing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

fire; flame; flaming (the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke)

Derivation:

blaze (burn brightly and intensely)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicate by marking trees with blazes

Example:

blaze a trail

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

mark (designate as if by a mark)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shoot rapidly and repeatedly

Example:

He blazed away at the men

Synonyms:

blaze; blaze away

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

blast; shoot (fire a shot)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Move rapidly and as if blazing

Example:

The spaceship blazed out into space

Synonyms:

blaze; blaze out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off (leave)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 4

Meaning:

Burn brightly and intensely

Example:

The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

burn; combust (undergo combustion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Also:

blaze up (burn brightly)

Derivation:

blaze (a strong flame that burns brightly)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Shine brightly and intensively

Example:

Meteors blazed across the atmosphere

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

beam; shine (emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

Lights blaze on the horizon

The horizon is blazeing with lights

Derivation:

blaze (a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted)

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 Context examples: 

It also means that the top of the planet's atmosphere is heated to a blazing 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,500 Celsius), hot enough to boil some metals.

(Hubble Detects Exoplanet with Glowing Water Atmosphere, NASA)

But that's not the case with WASP-121b, which is orbiting so dangerously close to its star that its upper atmosphere reaches a blazing 4,600 degrees Fahrenheit.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

About 280 firefighters were battling the blazes while 22,000 homes were without power in the region after the high winds brought down trees.

(Australian Wildfires Destroy Homes, Kill Cattle as Hundreds of People Flee, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Gray told me nothing, and I asked him nothing; and what's more, I would see you and him and this whole island blown clean out of the water into blazes first.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

His eyes blazed at you and held you at his mercy.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suddenly he jumped to his feet, with his eyes blazing and all the signs of intense cerebral excitement.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I felt, all this while, as if my ear were blazing; he pinched it so hard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He saw the blaze of the fire, Kloo-kooch cooking, and Grey Beaver squatting on his hams and mumbling a chunk of raw tallow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The blaze there has thawed all the snow from your cloak; by the same token, it has streamed on to my floor, and made it like a trampled street.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then you'd dash out as an heiress, scorn everyone who has slighted you, go abroad, and come home my Lady Something in a blaze of splendor and elegance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)