CONFLAGRATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A very intense and uncontrolled fire

Synonyms:

conflagration; inferno

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

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

fire (the event of something burning (often destructive))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conflagration"):

wildfire (a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration)

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