Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Australia, New Zealand)An uncontrolled fire in a wooded or grassy area; a wildfire.

    Buschfeuer

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Can we repopulate an area after a bushfire?

  2. Koalas are vulnerable to bushfires due to their slow movements.

  3. After the bushfires, we have independently decided to call off this year's fireworks display.

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  4. Our friends were evacuated from their farm because of the bushfires in their area.

  5. The city is being blanketed again today by a thick pall of smoke from nearby bushfires.

Translations

3 languages
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Forms

plural: bushfires

Synonyms

2 synonyms
uncontrolled fire in a wooded area:forest firewildfire

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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