blazing
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zɪŋ 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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noun
1.
a bright flame or fire: the welcome blaze of the hearth.
2.
a bright, hot gleam or glow: the blaze of day.
3.
a sparkling brightness: a blaze of jewels.
4.
a sudden, intense outburst, as of fire, passion, or fury: to unleash a blaze of pent-up emotions; a blaze of glory.
5.
blazes, Informal. hell: Go to blazes!
verb (used without object)
6.
to burn brightly (sometimes followed by away, up, forth ): The bonfire blazed away for hours. The dry wood blazed up at the touch of a match.
7.
to shine like flame (sometimes followed by forth ): Their faces blazed with enthusiasm.
8.
to burn with intense feeling or passion (sometimes followed by up ): He blazed up at the insult.
9.
to shoot steadily or continuously (usually followed by away ): The contestants blazed away at the clay pigeons.
10.
to be brilliantly conspicuous.
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English blase torch, flame; cognate with Middle High German blas torch
before 1000; Middle English, Old English blase torch, flame; cognate with Middle High German blas torch
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noun
1.
a spot or mark made on a tree, as by painting or notching or by chipping away a piece of the bark, to indicate a trail or boundary.
2.
a white area down the center of the face of a horse, cow, etc.
verb (used with object)
3.
to mark with blazes: to blaze a trail.
4.
to lead in forming or finding (a new method, course, etc.): His research in rocketry blazed the way for space travel.
Origin:
1655–65; akin to Old Norse blesi, Dutch bles, German Blässe white mark on a beast's face, and to German blass pale
1655–65; akin to Old Norse blesi, Dutch bles, German Blässe white mark on a beast's face, and to German blass pale
verb (used with object), blazed, blaz·ing.
1.
to make known; proclaim; publish: Headlines blazed the shocking news.
2.
Obsolete. to blow, as from a trumpet.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English blasen < Middle Dutch; cognate with Old Norse blāsa to blow. See blast
1350–1400; Middle English blasen < Middle Dutch; cognate with Old Norse blāsa to blow. See blast
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blaze1 (bleɪz) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a strong fire or flame |
| 2. | a very bright light or glare |
| 3. | an outburst (of passion, acclaim, patriotism, etc) |
| 4. | brilliance; brightness |
| —vb | |
| 5. | to burn fiercely |
| 6. | to shine brightly |
| 7. | ( |
| 8. | ( |
| [Old English blæse] | |
| blaze2 (bleɪz) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a mark, usually indicating a path, made on a tree, esp by chipping off the bark |
| 2. | a light-coloured marking on the face of a domestic animal, esp a horse |
| —vb | |
| 3. | to indicate or mark (a tree, path, etc) with a blaze |
| 4. | blaze a trail to explore new territories, areas of knowledge, etc, in such a way that others can follow |
| [C17: probably from Middle Low German bles white marking; compare | |
| blaze3 (bleɪz) | |
| —vb (often foll by abroad) | |
| to make widely known; proclaim | |
| [C14: from Middle Dutch blāsen, from Old High German blāsan; related to Old Norse blāsa] | |
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Word Origin & History
blaze
"flame, fire," O.E. blæse "a torch, flame, firebrand, lamp," from P.Gmc. *blas- "shining, white" (cf. O.S. blas "white, whitish," M.H.G. blas "bald," originally "white, shining," O.H.G. blas-ros "horse with a white spot," M.Du., Du. bles, Ger. Blesse "white spot"), from PIE base *bhel- (1) "to
shine, flash, burn" (see bleach). The verb is early 13c.
blaze
"light-colored mark or spot," 1630s, northern Eng. dialect, probably from O.N. blesi "white spot on a horse's face" (from the same root as blaze (1)). A Low Ger. cognate of the O.N. word also has been suggested as the source. Applied 1660s in Amer.Eng. to marks cut on tree
trunks to indicate a track; thus the verb meaning "to mark a trail;" first recorded 1750, Amer.Eng.
blaze
"make public" (often in a bad sense, boastfully), late 14c., from M.Du. blasen "to blow" (on a trumpet), from P.Gmc. *blaes-an, from PIE *bhle-, var. of base *bhel- "to swell, blow up" (see bole).
blazing
prp. adj. from blaze (q.v.), late 14c., "shining," also "vehement." As a mild or euphemistic epithet, attested from 1888 (no doubt connected with the blazes in colloquial sense of "Hell").
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