blaze
IPA: bɫˈeɪz
noun
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- (color) A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- (poker) A hand consisting of five face cards.
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.
- A male given name from Latin.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
verb
- (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- (transitive, rare) To set in a blaze; burn.
- (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
- (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
- (transitive, figurative) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- (figurative) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- (slang) To smoke marijuana.
- (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
- (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
- (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
- (transitive, heraldry) To blazon.
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Examples of "blaze" in Sentences
- I have piled up deer while hunting in blaze orange and jeans.
- Warm days came, and the sun drew another blaze from the free-bosomed earth.
- * When you harvest a gobbler, carry it out of the woods draped in blaze orange.
- The blaze is near an area where a wildfire burned almost 10 square miles and 169 homes last month.
- We will not fall, but rise in blaze of loss and call, and fly into our births and cry inferno, aye, incinerate your lie. posted by Hal Duncan | 12: 49 AM
- The one liberally sprinkled in blaze orange post-its. the calendar with things like Gymbucks clipped to the right month, and a pen clipped to the whole thing for easy scribbling.
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