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| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn brightly |
| Synonyms: | beam, coruscate, explode, fire, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, glow, illuminate, illumine, jet, light, radiate, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, burst out, fulgurate, incandesce |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fire |
| Synonyms: | bonfire, burning, combustion, conflagration, flame, holocaust, flames, wildfire |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flash of light |
| Synonyms: | beam, burst, flare, glare, gleam, glitter, glow, radiance, brilliance |
| Main Entry: | blaze |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | torrent |
| Synonyms: | blast, burst, eruption, flare-up, flash, fury, outbreak, outburst, rush, storm |
| Main Entry: | hell |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place of the condemned; bad situation |
| Synonyms: | abyss, affliction, agony, anguish, bottomless pit*, difficulty, fire and brimstone*, grave, inferno, limbo, misery, nether world, nightmare, ordeal, pandemonium, perdition, pit, purgatory, suffering, torment, trial, underworld, wretchedness, Abaddon, Gehenna, Hades, blazes, everlasting fire, hell-fire, infernal regions, lower world, place of torment |
| Antonyms: | heaven |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inferno |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hell |
| Synonyms: | bottomless pit*, fire and brimstone*, purgatory, underworld, Hades, blazes, everlasting fire, hellfire, netherworld |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | burn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be on fire; set on fire |
| Synonyms: | bake, blaze, brand, broil, cauterize, char, cook, cremate, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glow, heat, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, melt, parch, rekindle, roast, scald, scorch, sear, singe, smoke, smolder, toast, torch, wither, be ablaze, calcine, combust, conflagrate, enkindle, reduce to ashes, set a match to |
| Antonyms: | cool, extinguish, put out, quench, smother, wet |
| Main Entry: | burn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be excited about; yearn for |
| Synonyms: | blaze, boil, bristle, desire, eat up*, fume, lust, rage, seethe, simmer, tingle, yearn, be angry, be aroused, be inflamed, be passionate, be stirred up, breathe fire, smoulder |
| Antonyms: | stifle, subdue |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conflagration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large fire |
| Synonyms: | blaze, bonfire, burning, flaming, holocaust, inferno, rapid oxidation, up in smoke, wildfire |
| Main Entry: | declare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make known clearly or officially |
| Synonyms: | acknowledge, advance, advocate, affirm, allege, announce, argue, assert, attest, aver, avow, blaze, certify, cite, claim, confess, confirm, contend, convey, demonstrate, disclose, enunciate, inform, insist, maintain, manifest, notify, pass, proclaim, profess, promulgate, pronounce, publish, render, repeat, reveal, show, sound, state, stress, swear, tell, testify, validate, vouch, allegate, asservate, be positive, bring forward, give out, propound, put forward, reaffirm, reassert, set forth |
| Antonyms: | deny, disavow, retract |
| Main Entry: | display |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public showing; spectacle |
| Synonyms: | act, affectation, arrangement, array, blaze, dash, demonstration, example, exhibit, exhibition, exposition, exposure, fanfare, flourish, frippery, front, layout, manifestation, ostentation, pageant, panorama, parade, pedantry, pomp, presentation, pretension, revelation, sample, scheme, shine, splash, splendor, splurge, spread, vanity, arrayal, bravura, expo, for show, frame-up, grandstand play, ostentatiousness, pretentiousness, showboat, unfolding |
| Antonyms: | hiding |
| Main Entry: | disseminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distribute, scatter |
| Synonyms: | advertise, announce, blaze, blazon, broadcast, circulate, declare, diffuse, disperse, dissipate, proclaim, promulgate, propagate, publicize, publish, radiate, sow, spread, strew, annunciate, disject |
| Antonyms: | collect, gather |
| Main Entry: | explode |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up |
| Synonyms: | backfire, blast, blaze, break out, burst, collapse, convulse, detonate, discharge, erupt, fracture, jet, mushroom*, rupture, shatter, shiver, split, thunder, blow to kingdom come, flame up, flare up, kablooey, let go, set off |
| Notes: | explode is to blow up from a confined area outwards; implode means blow inwards, as a lightbulb does when it burns out |
| Antonyms: | implode |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feature |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give prominence to |
| Synonyms: | accentuate, advertise, blaze*, emphasize, headline*, mark, play up*, present, promote, spotlight*, star, stress, underline, underscore, call attention to, italicize, make conspicuous, point up*, set off* |
| Antonyms: | disregard, ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burning |
| Synonyms: | blaze, bonfire, combustion, conflagration, devouring, element, embers, flare, glow, hearth, heat, holocaust, inferno, luminosity, pyre, scorching, tinder, warmth, campfire, charring, coals, flame and smoke, flames, hot spot, incandescence, oxidation, phlogiston, rapid oxidation, scintillation, sea of flames, searing, sparks, up in smoke |
| Main Entry: | fireplace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hearth for burning wood |
| Synonyms: | blaze, chimney, furnace, grate, settle, stove, bed of coals, fireside, hearthside, hob, ingle, inglenook, ingleside |
| Main Entry: | flame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fire |
| Synonyms: | blaze, brightness, conflagration, flare, flash, holocaust, light, rapid oxidation, wildfire |
| Main Entry: | flame |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn |
| Synonyms: | blaze, coruscate, fire, flare, flash, glare, glint, glow, ignite, kindle, light, oxidize, shine, flare up |
| Main Entry: | flare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erupt, blow |
| Synonyms: | blaze, break out, burn, burst, dart, dazzle, explode, flash, flicker, flutter, fume, glare, glow, go off, rant, seethe, shimmer, shoot, waver, boil over, burn up, fire up, lose control |
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shimmer, flicker |
| Synonyms: | beam, blaze, burst, dazzle, flame, flare, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, illumination, imprint, impulse, luster, quiver, radiation, ray, reflection, shine, spark, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle, twinkling, vision, bedazzlement, coruscation, incandescence, phosphorescence, scintillation |
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