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flamestrike

flamestrike noun: the strike of a flame.

Noun

flamestrike (plural flamestrikes)

  1. The strike of a flame.
    • I could teach you a bit – healing and so forth: it’s part of my priestly skills – but that’s not what you want. You need attack spells – flamestrikes, lightning bolts, thundercrushes, that sort of thing.1988, J[ames] H[erbert] Brennan, “Barmy Jeffers”, in Adventure Stories, St Michael, published 1989, →ISBN, page 328
    • I do like your evasive maneuvers, by the way. Perenor will never expect me to drop to the ground to avoid a flamestrike.1990, Mercedes Lackey, Ellen Guon, “Knight of Ghosts and Shadows”, in Bedlam’s Bard, Guild America Books, published 1992, →ISBN, page 183

Examples of flamestrike in a sentence

  • Uncouth threw a Flamestrike spell at me, while Arnold stole all of my Recall spells and then bashed me.1995, Rawn Shah, Jim Romine, “Stories and Virtual Occurrences”, in Playing Muds on the Internet, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, part I...
  • For ultimate hilarity, have a mage throw fireballs at you, call in flamestrikes, and so on while your shielded character whistles a tune.2001, David Chong, Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter: Sybex Official Strategies and Secrets, Sybex, →ISBN, page 105:
  • “[…] Did you see what happened to the white dragon?” / “I saw it take to the air after the first couple of flamestrikes.[…]”2009, Stephen Deas, The Adamantine Palace (The Memory of Flames; I), Roc Books, published 2011:

Forms of flamestrike

pluralflamestrikes

Origin of flamestrike

From flame + strike.

Questions about flamestrike

What does flamestrike mean?
Flamestrike means the strike of a flame.
How do you use flamestrike in a sentence?
Uncouth threw a Flamestrike spell at me, while Arnold stole all of my Recall spells and then bashed me.
What part of speech is flamestrike?
Flamestrike is a noun.
What is the plural of flamestrike?
The plural of flamestrike is flamestrikes.

Words near flamestrike in the dictionary

  1. flames
  2. flames of the forest
  3. flames of the forests
  4. flames out
  5. flames up
  6. flamestrike
  7. flamestrikes
  8. flameth
  9. flamethrower
  10. flamethrowers
  11. flamethrowing

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