| Library / English Dictionary |
BLAZING
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A strong flame that burns brightly
Example:
the blaze spread rapidly
Synonyms:
blaze; blazing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("blazing" is a kind of...):
fire; flame; flaming (the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shining intensely
Example:
the glaring sun
Synonyms:
blazing; blinding; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary
Classified under:
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
Example:
a blazing indiscretion
Synonyms:
blatant; blazing; conspicuous
Classified under:
Similar:
unconcealed (not concealed or hidden)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb blaze
Context examples:
He kept awaking and cocking his ears at the bright world without, where the April sun was blazing across the snow.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I felt, all this while, as if my ear were blazing; he pinched it so hard.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He stooped to the fire, picked up a blazing branch, and slipped in an instant through a sallyport which he had made in our gateway.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The building site, dubbed "Sparky," is a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate.
(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)
They were mere skeletons, draped loosely in draggled hides, with blazing eyes and slavered fangs.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Two blazing dark eyes flashed out of the pale haggard face with as strange and sudden an effect as if a stream of light were to beat through the windows of a shattered and ruined house.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The second reason I am so excited about this eclipse is that Uranus, the planet of sudden, unanticipated events, will be incredibly friendly and supportive, so news will likely come as a complete surprise, coming to you like a blazing meteor from space.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
An Atlas V rocket traced a blazing arc into the Florida sky Thursday evening to send a small robotic explorer on its way to an asteroid on a mission that scientists anticipate will reveal answers to some of the basic questions about the solar system.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
Even the fire on the hearth left off blazing, and went to sleep; the jack stopped, and the spit that was turning about with a goose upon it for the king’s dinner stood still; and the cook, who was at that moment pulling the kitchen-boy by the hair to give him a box on the ear for something he had done amiss, let him go, and both fell asleep; the butler, who was slyly tasting the ale, fell asleep with the jug at his lips: and thus everything stood still, and slept soundly.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I desired you would let me know, by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense, and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility’s education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth, and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit, and learning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
