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Synonyms of blaze in English:

blaze


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noun

1‘twenty firemen fought the blaze’

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fire, flames, conflagration, inferno, holocaust, firestorm

2‘the blaze of light from the security lamps’

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glare, gleam, flash, burst, flare, dazzle, streak, radiance, brilliance, beam, glitter

3‘he left in a blaze of anger’

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outburst, burst, eruption, flare-up, explosion, outbreak, blow-up
blast, attack, fit, spasm, paroxysm, access, rush, gale, flood, storm, hurricane, torrent, outpouring, surge, upsurge, spurt, effusion, outflow, outflowing, welling up
informal splurt
rare ebullition, boutade

verb

1‘the fire blazed merrily’

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burn, be ablaze, be alight, be on fire, be in flames, flame, be aflame, flare up
literary be afire
archaic be ardent

2‘he drove straight through the crowd, lights blazing’

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shine, beam, flash, flare, glare, gleam, glint, dazzle, glitter, glisten, be radiant, burn brightly

3‘soldiers blazed away with sub-machine guns’

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fire, fire away, shoot, shoot away, blast, blast away, let fly
discharge