Dictionary Entry
blaze
blaze is a 5-letter English word with 22 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
- 2noun
Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
- 3noun
A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
- 4noun
A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
- 5noun
A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- 6intransitive verb
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
- 7intransitive verb
To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
- 8intransitive verb
To be resplendent.
- 9transitive verb
To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
- 10transitive verb
To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
- 11intransitive verb
To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
- 12intransitive verb
To blazon.
- 13noun
noisy and unrestrained mischief
"raising blazes"
Synonyms
- 14noun
a light-colored marking
"they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"
"the horse had a blaze between its eyes"
- 15noun
a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
"a glare of sunlight"
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- 16noun
a cause of difficulty and suffering
"war is hell"
"go to blazes"
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- 17noun
a strong flame that burns brightly
"the blaze spread rapidly"
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- 18verb
indicate by marking trees with blazes
"blaze a trail"
- 19verb
shoot rapidly and repeatedly
"He blazed away at the men"
- 20verb
move rapidly and as if blazing
"The spaceship blazed out into space"
- 21verb
burn brightly and intensely
"The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"
- 22verb
shine brightly and intensively
"Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"
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