Meaning

3 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.

  2. (countable, uncountable)Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.

  3. (Internet, countable, uncountable)Vitriolic criticism.

    You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.

More definitions
  • the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

Forms

plural: flamings
Singularflaming
Pluralflamings

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke:fireflame

Word family

3 related words
Relatedflame warflame baitflame

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
flameB2flamencoflamethrowerflamingoflammable

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