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conflagrant

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con⋅fla⋅grant

  [kuhn-fley-gruhnt]
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–adjective
blazing; burning; on fire.
Origin:
1650–60; < L conflagrant- (s. of conflagrāns), prp. of conflagrāre. See conflagration, -ant
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con·fla·grant   (kən-flā'grənt)   
adj.  Burning intensely; blazing.

[Latin cōnflagrāns, cōnflagrant-, present participle of cōnflagrāre, to burn up : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + flagrāre, to burn; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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