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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a strong flame that burns brightly;
- Example: "the blaze spread rapidly"
[syn: blaze, blazing]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. shining intensely;
- Example: "the blazing sun"
- Example: "blinding headlights"
- Example: "dazzling snow"
- Example: "fulgent patterns of sunlight"
- Example: "the glaring sun"
[syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]

2. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
- Example: "blatant disregard of the law"
- Example: "a blatant appeal to vanity"
- Example: "a blazing indiscretion"
[syn: blatant, blazing, conspicuous]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blaze \Blaze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blazed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Blazing.]
   1. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire
      blazes.
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   2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to
      show a blaze.
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            And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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   3. To be resplendent. --Macaulay.
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   To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue
      firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of
      soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blazing \Blaz"ing\, a.
   Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
   --Sir W. Scott.
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   Blazing star.
   (a) A comet. [Obs.]
   (b) A brilliant center of attraction.
   (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to
       Cham[ae]lirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris
       squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also
       colicroot and star grass.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

blazing
    adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding
           headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of
           sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding,
           dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]
    2: without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
       "blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity";
       "a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blatant, blazing,
       conspicuous]
    n 1: a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread
         rapidly" [syn: blaze, blazing]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

81 Moby Thesaurus words for "blazing":
   ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blistering,
   branding, burning, calcination, candent, candescent, carbonization,
   cauterization, cautery, cineration, comburent, combustion,
   concremation, conflagrant, cracking, cremation, cupellation,
   deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling,
   fervent, fervid, fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing,
   flashy, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, glowing,
   guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames,
   incandescent, incineration, inflamed, kindled, live, living,
   meteoric, on fire, oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate,
   perfervid, pyrolysis, red-hot, reeking, refining, scintillant,
   scintillating, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation,
   singeing, smelting, smoking, smoldering, sparking, suttee,
   the stake, thermogenesis, unextinguished, unquenched, vesication