Meaning

9 senses
  1. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

    (vielzüngige) Flamme, Flammenmeer, Lohe

    пла́мя, ого́нь

    по́лум'яpólumʺja

  2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.

    They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.

    Gleißen, Brennen, Lodern

  3. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.

  4. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.

  5. A hand consisting of five face cards.

  6. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.

    The palomino had a white blaze on its face.

    Blesse

  7. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.

  8. A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.

  9. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.

More definitions
  • a light-colored marking
  • a strong flame that burns brightly
  • noisy and unrestrained mischief
  • a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted

Examples

65 sentences
  1. Tom's eyes blazed with anger.

  2. Tom died in the blaze.

  3. The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze.

    Пожежники швидко загасили полум'я. — uaspeaker

    ruПожарные быстро потушили пламя. — Hellerick

    deDie Feuerwehrmänner löschten die Flammen schnell. — al_ex_an_der

  4. Twenty people perished in the blaze.

    ruДвадцать человек погибли в огне. — captcrouton

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  5. The house was blazing with lights.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
fast-burning fire:
Русский
By meaning 1
fast-burning fire:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
fast-burning fire:
intense light accompanied with heat:
white or lighter-coloured marking:

Origin

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”)

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”).

From Middle English blasen (“to blow”), from Old English *blǣsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną (“to blow”). Related to English blast.

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Forms

plural: blazes
Singularblaze
Pluralblazes

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a strong flame that burns brightly:blazing
  • noisy and unrestrained mischief:hell
  • a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted:glarebrilliance
  • a cause of difficulty and suffering:hell

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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