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blaze

/bleyz/US // bleɪz //UK // (bleɪz) //

炽热,火焰,炽热的气氛,炽热的火焰

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a bright flame or fire: the welcome blaze of the hearth.
    • : a bright, hot gleam or glow: the blaze of day.
    • : a sparkling brightness: a blaze of jewels.
    • : a sudden, intense outburst, as of fire, passion, or fury: to unleash a blaze of pent-up emotions; a blaze of glory.
    • : blazes, Informal. hell: Go to blazes!
v.无主动词 verb
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    blazed, blaz·ing.

    • : to burn brightly: The bonfire blazed away for hours. The dry wood blazed up at the touch of a match.
    • : to shine like flame: Their faces blazed with enthusiasm.
    • : to burn with intense feeling or passion: He blazed up at the insult.
    • : to shoot steadily or continuously: The contestants blazed away at the clay pigeons.
    • : to be brilliantly conspicuous.

Phrases

  • blaze a trail
  • hot as blazes
  • like greased lightning (blazes)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The Cuyahoga first caught on fire in 1868 and would burn 11 more times until the blaze on June 22, 1969.

  • Here’s how these aerial operations work, and what it’s like battling blazes from the air.

  • The blazes quickly ripped through hundreds of thousands of acres, forcing thousands to evacuate, filling the skies with smoke, and raining down ash across much of the region.

  • A tornado of fire blazed before settling into a spinning blue flame several centimeters tall.

  • We’re blazing our own path, and creating opportunities that weren’t there before.

  • On Christmas Day, sometime after dark, a hideous fire overtook the venue: 100 firefighters, 33 fire trucks, a four-alarm blaze.

  • A Molotov cocktail tumbled in an arc overhead and erupted briefly in a blaze.

  • The blaze was deemed suspicious enough to warrant an investigation.

  • They began assisting whomever they could and made plans to fight this blaze on high.

  • Pasto is almost 8,300 feet up in the mountains, so it was cold and crisp, with a blaze of stars across the sky.

  • She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.

  • She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination.

  • Through these flues were forced currents of hot air from a blaze in a large fireplace at one end of the house.

  • Hard up as we are for shell he thinks it best to blaze it away freely before closing and to trust our bayonets when we get in.

  • There was a fire burning in the general-room of the hostelry, and Garnache went to warm him at its cheerful blaze.