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Synonyms for blazing


Grammar : Adj
Spell : bley-zing
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbleɪ zɪŋ



Définition of blazing

Origin :
  • late 14c., "shining," also "vehement," present participle adjective from blaze (v.1). As a mild or euphemistic epithet, attested from 1888 (no doubt connected with the blazes in colloquial sense of "Hell").
  • adj on fire
Example sentences :
  • There is a coolness amid all the heat, a mildness in the blazing noon.
  • Extract from : « The Old Manse (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • But was it not a little hard upon me, to be kept from blazing on a Sunday?
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • Her eyes were blazing with an anger the more fierce in that some of it was reaction.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • The day was blazing hot, and there was n't a cloud to be seen.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • This was on the evening before, while they sat by the blazing fire in the cabin.
  • Extract from : « With Trapper Jim in the North Woods » by Lawrence J. Leslie
  • He slipped it out of its frame and tossed it on top of the blazing letters.
  • Extract from : « The Greater Inclination » by Edith Wharton
  • I found them seated round a blazing fire waiting for my father.
  • Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
  • No beast will attack mankind when protected by a blazing torch.
  • Extract from : « Classic Myths » by Mary Catherine Judd
  • We sat by a big, blazing fire and ate and enjoyed ourselves in spite of it.
  • Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
  • It seemed as if nothing could exist in that blazing, screaming hell.
  • Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner

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