BLAZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blaze mean? 

• BLAZE (noun)
  The noun BLAZE has 5 senses:

1. a strong flame that burns brightly

2. a cause of difficulty and suffering

3. noisy and unrestrained mischief

4. a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted

5. a light-colored marking

  Familiarity information: BLAZE used as a noun is common.

• BLAZE (verb)
  The verb BLAZE has 5 senses:

1. shine brightly and intensively

2. shoot rapidly and repeatedly

3. burn brightly and intensely

4. move rapidly and as if blazing

5. indicate by marking trees with blazes

  Familiarity information: BLAZE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAZE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strong flame that burns brightly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

blaze; blazing

Context example:

the blaze spread rapidly

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

fire; flame; flaming (the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke)

Derivation:

blaze (burn brightly and intensely)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A cause of difficulty and suffering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

blaze; hell

Context example:

go to blazes

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

trouble (an event causing distress or pain)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Noisy and unrestrained mischief

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

blaze; hell

Context example:

raising blazes

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

devilment; devilry; deviltry; mischief; mischief-making; mischievousness; rascality; roguery; roguishness; shenanigan (reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

blaze; brilliance; glare

Context example:

a glare of sunlight

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

Derivation:

blaze (shine brightly and intensively)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A light-colored marking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the horse had a blaze between its eyes

Hypernyms ("blaze" is a kind of...):

marking (a pattern of marks)

• BLAZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they blaze    ... he / she / it blazes   
Past simple: blazed   
Past participle: blazed   
-ing form: blazing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shine brightly and intensively

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Context example:

Meteors blazed across the atmosphere

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

beam; shine (emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

Lights blaze on the horizon
The horizon is blazeing with lights

Derivation:

blaze (a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Shoot rapidly and repeatedly

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

blaze; blaze away

Context example:

He blazed away at the men

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

blast; shoot (fire a shot)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Burn brightly and intensely

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Context example:

The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

burn; combust (undergo combustion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Also:

blaze up (burn brightly)

Derivation:

blaze (a strong flame that burns brightly)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Move rapidly and as if blazing

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

blaze; blaze out

Context example:

The spaceship blazed out into space

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

depart; part; set forth; set off; set out; start; start out; take off (leave)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Indicate by marking trees with blazes

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

blaze a trail

Hypernyms (to "blaze" is one way to...):

mark (designate as if by a mark)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

In the blaze of the electric lights, he saw Lizzie Connolly and her giggly friend.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a blazing hot day in August.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out towards the blaze.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyes were blazing, his mouth was wide open; the teeth gleamed cruelly white.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Holmes tossed it in among the blazing papers.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then some of the wood that had been carelessly thrown down, caught fire and began to blaze.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The building site, dubbed "Sparky," is a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

They pile them against the walls and set them in a blaze.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle held out his hands towards the blaze, and I noticed that they were as white as the ruffles which fringed them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The results are providing real-time information, such as vertical wind profiles, to firefighters battling blazes.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)