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

1. noun. A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
2. noun. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun.
3. noun. A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
4. noun. A white spot on the forehead of a horse.
5. noun. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
6. intransitive verb. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
7. intransitive verb. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.
8. intransitive verb. To be resplendent.
9. transitive verb. To mark (a tree) by chipping off a piece of the bark.
10. transitive verb. To designate by blazing; to mark out, as by blazed trees; as, to blaze a line or path.
11. intransitive verb. To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous.
12. intransitive verb. To blazon.
13. noun. noisy and unrestrained mischief

    "raising blazes"

    Synonyms: hell

14. noun. a light-colored marking

    "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"

    "the horse had a blaze between its eyes"

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

    "a glare of sunlight"

    Synonyms: brilliance, glare

16. noun. a cause of difficulty and suffering

    "war is hell"

    "go to blazes"

    Synonyms: hell

17. noun. a strong flame that burns brightly

    "the blaze spread rapidly"

    Synonyms: blazing

18. verb. indicate by marking trees with blazes

    "blaze a trail"

19. verb. shoot rapidly and repeatedly

    "He blazed away at the men"

20. verb. move rapidly and as if blazing

    "The spaceship blazed out into space"

21. verb. burn brightly and intensely

    "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"

22. verb. shine brightly and intensively

    "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"

Synonyms

hell, brilliance, glare, blazing

Common word forms

blazed, blazer, blazes, blazing

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