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blaze

/bleɪz/

blaze noun: a fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.

blaze: a fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light
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Noun (1)

blaze (plural blazes)

  1. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
    • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and...1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
  2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
    • They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.
    • O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day!1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 13
  3. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
  4. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
    • his blaze of wrathc. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • For what is glory but the blaze of fame?1671, John Milton, “The Fourth Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 3
    Synonyms:
    outburst
  5. A hand consisting of five face cards.

Verb (1)

blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)

  1. (intransitive) To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
    • The campfire blazed merrily.
  2. (intransitive) To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
    • And far and wide the icy summit blaze.1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches
    • Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive, poetic) To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
  4. (rare, transitive) To set in a blaze; burn.
  5. (transitive) To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
  6. (figuratively) To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
    • “I’ll die before I let my grandad pay you that much money!” blazed the girl.1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-trigger Brand, page 160
  7. (slang) To smoke marijuana.
    • I take a hit of that chronic, it got me stuck / But really what’s amazing is how I keep blazing2005, “We Major”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Really Doe and Nas
    • Fam, I don’t blaze / But I can bill up, so if I get bored / I might mm, bill it / At studio, I’m like mm, kill it2015, Jme, “Pulse 8” (track 1), in Integrity>, performed by Jme

Noun (2)

blaze (plural blazes)

  1. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
    • The palomino had a white blaze on its face.
  2. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
    • The blaze is a longitudinal cut on trees at convenient intervals, made by cutting off the bark with an axe or hatchet: three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze, a settlement or neighbourhood road.1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase: Or, Early Years in the Far West - Page 71
  3. (hiking) A waymark: any marking as painted on trees, carvings, affixed markers, posts, flagging, or crosses placed to lead hikers on their trail.

Verb (2)

blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)

  1. (transitive, only in the past participle) To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
  2. (transitive) To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
    • They had, just as we expected they would, cut Stuart’s tracks, and had actually slept one night in one of his old camping-places, finding the trees “blazed” and marked “S.,” as were all the trees at intervals along his line of exploration.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 105
    • We drew them up, therefore, and concealed them among the bushes, blazing a tree with our axes, so that we should find them again.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
    • The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.
  4. (transitive) To mark off or stake a claim to land.
    • He blazed his claim on the land.
  5. (figuratively, transitive) To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
    • Darwin blazed a path for the rest of us.

Verb (3)

blaze (third-person singular simple present blazes, present participle blazing, simple past and past participle blazed)

  1. (transitive) To blow, as from a trumpet.
  2. (transitive) To publish; announce publicly.
  3. (transitive) To disclose; bewray; defame.
  4. (transitive) To blazon.
    • And nowe here is another crosse for your learning, and is thus blazed. The field is Argét, a playn crosse Gules, voyded of the first.1576, Gerard LEGH, The Accedens of Armory. With an address to the Reader by R. Argoll. Woodcuts. MS. notes, page 28
    • [...] yée thal blaze his Armes thus. A. beareth Argent, and Sable parted per Pale.1597, John Bossewell, Works of Armorie: devided into 3 Bookes, intituled the Concordes of Armorie, the Armorie of Honor and of lotes and creastes, page 28

Noun (3)

blaze (plural blazes)

  1. Publication; the act of spreading widely by report.

Proper noun capitalized: Blaze

Blaze

  1. A male given name from Latin.
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.

blaze meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

blaze in Hindi

fast-burning fire
ज्वाला jvālā, धधक dhadhak
intense light accompanied with heat
धधक dhadhak
to be on fire
प्रज्वलित prajvalit

blaze in Tamil

ஓளிவீச்சு, கிளரொளி, சுடர் வீச்சு, ஒளிவீச்சு, திடீரொளி, திடீர்மலர்ச்சி

blaze in Marathi

fast-burning fire
आगीचा डोंब āgīcā ḍomba
intense light accompanied with heat
प्रखर उजेड prakhar ujeḍ

blaze in Urdu

لہک, لپٹ, شعلہ, بھڑک کر جلنا, اعلان کرنا, مشتہر کرنا
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blaze in Bengali
অগ্নিশিখা, প্রখর আগুন, উজ্জ্বল দীপ্তি
blaze in Telugu
మంట maṇṭa, బగ్గు baggu
blaze in Malayalam
അഗ്നിജ്വാല, വികാരങ്ങളുടെ വിസ്ഫോടനം
blaze in Kannada
ಜ್ವಲಿಸು jvalisu
blaze in Punjabi
ਫੁੱਲੀ phullī
blaze in Sanskrit
दीप् dīp
blaze in Assamese
জলা zola, জ্বলা zola
blaze in Arabic
سَعِيرَا saʕīrā
blaze in Indonesian
kobaran
blaze in Persian
آتش âtaš, شعله šo'le, گر gor

Examples of blaze in a sentence

  • Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
  • Beinge thus blazed: Henzell On a ffeild Gules, beareth Three Acornes Slipped Or; Two and One.1877, Henry Sydney Grazebrook, Collections for a genealogy of the noble families of Henzey, Tyttery, and Tyzack, page 26:

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Synonyms of blaze

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Forms of blaze

Noun
pluralblazes
Verb
third-person singular presentblazes
present participleblazing
past participleblazed
pastblazed

Past tense of blaze: blazed

Plural of blaze: blazes

Origin of blaze

From Middle English blase, from Old English blæse, blase (“firebrand, torch, lamp, flame”), from Proto-West Germanic *blasā, from Proto-Germanic *blasǭ (“torch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine, be white”). Cognate with Low German blas (“burning candle, torch, fire”), Middle High German blas (“candle, torch, flame”).

From Middle English blasen, from Middle English blase (“torch”). See above.

] A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun.

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Questions about blaze

What does blaze mean?
Blaze means a fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
What is blaze in Hindi?
Blaze in Hindi is ज्वाला (jvālā), धधक (dhadhak), प्रज्वलित (prajvalit). See Blaze meaning in Hindi.
How do you use blaze in a sentence?
Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze.
What part of speech is blaze?
Blaze can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce blaze?
Blaze is pronounced /bleɪz/.
What is the plural of blaze?
The plural of blaze is blazes.

Words near blaze in the dictionary

  1. blays
  2. blazar
  3. blazars
  4. Blazdell
  5. Blazdells
  6. blaze
  7. blaze a trail
  8. blaze away
  9. blaze down
  10. blaze of glory
  11. blaze on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blaze (page history and authors); Blaze (page history and authors); blaze (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blaze (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blaze (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); బగ్గు (Telugu) (page history and authors); blaze (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಜ್ವಲಿಸು (Kannada) (page history and authors); दीप् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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