blaze
verb/bleɪz/
/bleɪz/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they blaze | /bleɪz/ /bleɪz/ |
| he / she / it blazes | /ˈbleɪzɪz/ /ˈbleɪzɪz/ |
| past simple blazed | /bleɪzd/ /bleɪzd/ |
| past participle blazed | /bleɪzd/ /bleɪzd/ |
| -ing form blazing | /ˈbleɪzɪŋ/ /ˈbleɪzɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive] to burn brightly and strongly
- A huge fire was blazing in the fireplace.
- Within minutes the whole building was blazing.
- He rushed back into the blazing house.
- [intransitive] to shine brightly
- The sun blazed down from a clear blue sky.
- The garden blazed with colour.
- [intransitive] blaze (with something) (formal) if somebody’s eyes blaze, they look extremely angry
- Her eyes were blazing with fury.
- (also blazon)[transitive, usually passive] blaze something (across/all over something) to make news or information widely known by telling people about it in a way they are sure to notice
- The story was blazed all over the daily papers.
- [intransitive] blaze (away) if a gun or somebody using a gun blazes, the gun fires continuously
- In the distance machine guns were blazing.
- For five minutes, soldiers blazed away with machine guns and automatic rifles.
Word Originverb senses 1 to 3 and verb sense 5 Old English blæse ‘torch, bright fire’, of Germanic origin; related ultimately to blaze ‘white spot or stripe on an animal's face’. verb sense 4 late Middle English (in the sense ‘blow out on a trumpet’): from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch blāzen ‘to blow’; related to the verb blow.
Idioms
See blaze in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary(with) all/both guns blazing
- (informal) with a lot of energy and determination
- The champions came out (with) all guns blazing.
blaze a trail
- to be the first to do or to discover something that others follow
- The department is blazing a trail in the field of laser surgery.
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