[syn: blatant, blazing, conspicuous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blaze \Blaze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blazed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blazing.]
1. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire
blazes.
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2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to
show a blaze.
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And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
--Wordsworth.
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3. To be resplendent. --Macaulay.
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To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue
firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of
soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blazing \Blaz"ing\, a.
Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
--Sir W. Scott.
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Blazing star.
(a) A comet. [Obs.]
(b) A brilliant center of attraction.
(c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to
Cham[ae]lirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris
squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also
colicroot and star grass.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blazing
adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding
headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of
sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding,
dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]
2: without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
"blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity";
"a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blatant, blazing,
conspicuous]
n 1: a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread
rapidly" [syn: blaze, blazing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "blazing":
ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blistering,
branding, burning, calcination, candent, candescent, carbonization,
cauterization, cautery, cineration, comburent, combustion,
concremation, conflagrant, cracking, cremation, cupellation,
deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling,
fervent, fervid, fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing,
flashy, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, glowing,
guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames,
incandescent, incineration, inflamed, kindled, live, living,
meteoric, on fire, oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate,
perfervid, pyrolysis, red-hot, reeking, refining, scintillant,
scintillating, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation,
singeing, smelting, smoking, smoldering, sparking, suttee,
the stake, thermogenesis, unextinguished, unquenched, vesication