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blazing

[ bley-zing ]

adjective

  1. burning brightly and with great heat, force, etc.
  2. of tremendous intensity or fervor:

    a performance of blazing ferocity.



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  • blazing·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of blazing1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; blaze 1, -ing 2

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Example Sentences

Police officials told the AP that they came out with guns blazing.

Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.

As part of the writing team on Blazing Saddles, he gave its parody of the Western a sharper political edge.

“I also impressed upon her, you need to go sirens blazing and door-kicking and stop this,” the sales rep said.

But the windows in the blazing sunshine were dressed in dark winter clothes which made the town seem even more out of synch.

Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.

Her eyes were blazing with triumph, yet her lips curved with contempt at the attitude of her trembling father.

If it should ever be my lot to take the Long Trail at short notice, I hope it will be under a blue sky and a blazing sun.

Captain Vane came from the observatory, his face blazing with excitement and oily with heat, to announce the fact.

But one day when we marched beneath the blazing sun, we met a storm and found no shelter.

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