wildfire
wild·fire
noun
1.
a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
Origin
Inherited from Middle English wilde fyr, wilde fire, wylde fyre, from Old English wilde fȳr. By surface analysis, wild + fire.
Phrases
- spread like wildfire
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