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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

Although it takes a little longer than typical for this Hot Jupiter to complete a circle around its sun, this star has inflated, shortening the distance from its blazing surface to the planet.

There could be gate runners, intruders on the flight line, or just the bitter cold and blazing heat that comes with standing on post all day.

With 34 billion and 57 billion transistors, respectively, they are the engines powering the new Mac devices' super hi-res displays, providing blazing speed, and extending battery life.

Since his debut at age 17, he had crafted a mythic, All-American image as the boy who emerged from the Iowa cornfields and, by dint of hard work, captivated fans with his blazing fastball.

Sixteen pages per minute isn’t exactly a blazing speed but it won’t hamstring you unless you’ve got a lot of work to do.

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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