Blaze
noun
A very large or fiercely burning fire.
Firefighters struggled to control the blaze that started in the warehouse.
Often appears as...
- wildfire blaze
- house blaze
verb
Burn fiercely or brightly.
The bonfire was blazing away.
Often appears as...
- blaze away
- blaze up
verb
To approach something with intensity, like it's very important or exciting.
She blazed through her exams with top grades.
Often appears as...
- blaze through
- blaze ahead
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A mark made on a tree, typically by chipping off the bark, to show a route.
The hunters followed the blazes on the trees through the forest.
Often appears as...
- trail blaze
- tree blaze
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Technical
verb
To shoot continuously at someone.
The attackers blazed away at the police.
Often appears as...
- blaze away at
- blaze into
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Informal, Disapproving
verb
To create a new path or way of doing something.
She blazed a trail in the field of medical research.
Often appears as...
- blaze a trail
- blaze the way
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A white or other mark on the face of a domestic animal.
The horse had a distinct blaze on its forehead.
Often appears as...
- horse blaze
- distinct blaze
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A very large or fiercely burning fire.
Firefighters struggled to control the blaze that started in the warehouse.
Often appears as...
- wildfire blaze
- house blaze
verb
Burn fiercely or brightly.
The bonfire was blazing away.
Often appears as...
- blaze away
- blaze up
verb
To approach something with intensity, like it's very important or exciting.
She blazed through her exams with top grades.
Often appears as...
- blaze through
- blaze ahead
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A mark made on a tree, typically by chipping off the bark, to show a route.
The hunters followed the blazes on the trees through the forest.
Often appears as...
- trail blaze
- tree blaze
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To shoot continuously at someone.
The attackers blazed away at the police.
Often appears as...
- blaze away at
- blaze into
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
verb
To create a new path or way of doing something.
She blazed a trail in the field of medical research.
Often appears as...
- blaze a trail
- blaze the way
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A white or other mark on the face of a domestic animal.
The horse had a distinct blaze on its forehead.
Often appears as...
- horse blaze
- distinct blaze
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 7
Pro Tip 1/2Emergency Situations
Use 'blaze' to describe serious fires, often requiring urgent response.
The firefighters worked tirelessly to contain the downtown blaze.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity and Size
A 'blaze' often suggests a fire of great intensity and size.
The forest blaze could be seen from miles away.
Pro Tip 1/2Emergency Situations
Use 'blaze' to describe serious fires, often requiring urgent response.
The firefighters worked tirelessly to contain the downtown blaze.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity and Size
A 'blaze' often suggests a fire of great intensity and size.
The forest blaze could be seen from miles away.
Pro Tip 1/2Emergency Situations
Use 'blaze' to describe serious fires, often requiring urgent response.
The firefighters worked tirelessly to contain the downtown blaze.
Pro Tip 2/2Intensity and Size
A 'blaze' often suggests a fire of great intensity and size.
The forest blaze could be seen from miles away.
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Why certain naturally...
Fires are also important for the wider ecosystem as a whole. Without wildfires to rejuvenate trees, key forest species would disappear, and so would the many creatures that depend on them. And if a fire-dependent forest goes too long without burning, that raises the risk of a catastrophic blaze,
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Onward: A 5,300-Year-Old...
coronary heart diseases and this is a disease what we all always believed is a modern day disease I think we can learn a lot if you study these mummies and understand how as what role blazing the genes and what role plays the nutrition this could help to find new ways to to
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The genius of Marie...
laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. For good or ill, her discoveries in radiation launched a new era, unearthing some of science's greatest secrets.
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Advocating for gender...
coalition of women's groups would caress the establishment with the usual blandishments while aids-free world would engage in high-level advocacy at the diplomatic level we shamelessly used the veneer of male privilege to gain access but we needed a blazing dossier
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita...
or as important, if it's their druthers, to block an outcome. And so we have to figure out how they balance those two things. Different people trade off between standing by their outcome, faithfully holding to it, going down in a blaze of glory,
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A little-told tale of...
but a sexual evolution, learning from other parts of the world, adapting to local conditions, forging our own path, not following one blazed by another. That path, I hope, will one day lead us to the right to control our own bodies,
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A Dangerous Night In...
DISPATCHER They're dispatching LAPD units along with all fire trucks that respond to major emergency blazes for our protection. But with respect to trying to get LAPD service or anything else, folks, you're on your own down there.
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Jedidah Isler: How I...
are called blazars, or blazing quasars. What makes blazars so special is that they're some of the universe's most efficient particle accelerators, transporting incredible amounts of energy throughout a galaxy.
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LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
they're dispatching LAPD units trucks that respond to major emergency blazes for protection but with respect to trying to get LAPD service or anything else folks you're on your own down there
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Nature's Mighty Power:...
thousands of tons of dry grass is enough to fuel a blazing inferno
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Why certain naturally...
Fires are also important for the wider ecosystem as a whole. Without wildfires to rejuvenate trees, key forest species would disappear, and so would the many creatures that depend on them. And if a fire-dependent forest goes too long without burning, that raises the risk of a catastrophic blaze,
Video examples
Onward: A 5,300-Year-Old...
coronary heart diseases and this is a disease what we all always believed is a modern day disease I think we can learn a lot if you study these mummies and understand how as what role blazing the genes and what role plays the nutrition this could help to find new ways to to
Video examples
The genius of Marie...
laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. For good or ill, her discoveries in radiation launched a new era, unearthing some of science's greatest secrets.
Video examples
Advocating for gender...
coalition of women's groups would caress the establishment with the usual blandishments while aids-free world would engage in high-level advocacy at the diplomatic level we shamelessly used the veneer of male privilege to gain access but we needed a blazing dossier
Video examples
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita...
or as important, if it's their druthers, to block an outcome. And so we have to figure out how they balance those two things. Different people trade off between standing by their outcome, faithfully holding to it, going down in a blaze of glory,
Video examples
A little-told tale of...
but a sexual evolution, learning from other parts of the world, adapting to local conditions, forging our own path, not following one blazed by another. That path, I hope, will one day lead us to the right to control our own bodies,
Video examples
A Dangerous Night In...
DISPATCHER They're dispatching LAPD units along with all fire trucks that respond to major emergency blazes for our protection. But with respect to trying to get LAPD service or anything else, folks, you're on your own down there.
Video examples
Jedidah Isler: How I...
are called blazars, or blazing quasars. What makes blazars so special is that they're some of the universe's most efficient particle accelerators, transporting incredible amounts of energy throughout a galaxy.
Video examples
LA92 Panel - Live PIPE...
they're dispatching LAPD units trucks that respond to major emergency blazes for protection but with respect to trying to get LAPD service or anything else folks you're on your own down there
Video examples
Nature's Mighty Power:...
thousands of tons of dry grass is enough to fuel a blazing inferno
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Luke Roberts
English Actor
It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is, a well-rounded human being, a complete person. Especially when you're playing these impressive, high-functioning professionals. You feel like you have to come in sort of guns blazing.
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Talib Kweli
American Musician
A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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Eric Davis
American Athlete
The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.
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Warren Littlefield
American Businessman
A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egyptian Leader
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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Doug Baldwin
American Athlete
I didn't have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn't help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.
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Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.
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Tyra Banks
American Model
The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
American Writer
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
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Hilary Swank
American Actress
I like to play women who blaze trails.
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Luke Roberts
English Actor
It's nice to sort of walk in and at least create the illusion that you are, or your character is, a well-rounded human being, a complete person. Especially when you're playing these impressive, high-functioning professionals. You feel like you have to come in sort of guns blazing.
Quote examples
Talib Kweli
American Musician
A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
Quote examples
Eric Davis
American Athlete
The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.
Quote examples
Warren Littlefield
American Businessman
A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
Quote examples
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Egyptian Leader
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
Quote examples
Doug Baldwin
American Athlete
I didn't have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn't help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.
Quote examples
Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
I think anger does fuel a successful acting career. To play the great roles, you have to learn how to blaze.
Quote examples
Tyra Banks
American Model
The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.
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Helen Hunt Jackson
American Writer
I know the lands are lit, with all the autumn blaze of Goldenrod.
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Hilary Swank
American Actress
I like to play women who blaze trails.
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