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blaze

UK/bleɪz/ US/ˈbleɪz/ fairly common slang
verb (5) noun (5)

verb

1.

shine brightly and intensively

  • “Meteors blazed across the atmosphere”
2.

shoot rapidly and repeatedly

  • “He blazed away at the men”
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3.

burn brightly and intensely

  • “The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze”
4.

move rapidly and as if blazing

  • “The spaceship blazed out into space”
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5.

indicate by marking trees with blazes

  • “blaze a trail”

noun

1.

a strong flame that burns brightly

  • “the blaze spread rapidly”
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2.

a cause of difficulty and suffering

  • “war is hell”
  • “go to blazes”
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3.

noisy and unrestrained mischief

  • “raising blazes”
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4.

great brightness

  • “a glare of sunlight”
  • “the flowers were a blaze of color”
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5.

a light-colored marking

  • “they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes”
  • “the horse had a blaze between its eyes”

Origin

] A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun.

Phrases

  • blaze a trail
  • blaze away
  • blaze down
  • blaze of glory
  • blaze on
  • blaze orange
  • blaze up
  • blazing star
  • guns blazing

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