 flaming |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] (color) resembling flame in brilliance or color | |
| Synonyms: | ablaze | |
| Examples: | "maple trees ablaze in autumn" "flaming autumn leaves" |
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| Related terms: | colorful | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] lighted up by or as by fire or flame | |
| Synonyms: | blazing burning aflare afire on_fire alight aflame ablaze | |
| Examples: | "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning" "even the car's tires were aflame" "candles alight on the tables" "blazing logs in the fireplace" "a burning cigarette" "a flaming crackling fire" "houses on fire" |
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| Related terms: | lighted | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] very intense | |
| Synonyms: | fiery | |
| Examples: | "a fiery temper" "flaming passions" |
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| Related terms: | hot | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] (used of persons) informal intensifiers | |
| Synonyms: | blinking bloody crashing fucking blooming bally | |
| Examples: | "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance" "a bloody fool" "a crashing bore" "you flaming idiot" |
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| Related terms: | unmitigated | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (chemistry) the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke | |
| Synonyms: | flame fire | |
| Examples: | "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries" |
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| Related terms: | combustion blaze flare burn fire flame | |
| Similar spelling: |
flamingo fleming Flemming Flemings Flemmings Flaminius flamen Flemons Flament flamenco |
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