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scarefire

scarefire noun: a fire causing alarm, i.e. a house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.

Noun

scarefire (plural scarefires)

  1. (obsolete) A fire causing alarm, i.e. a house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.
    • Scarefire of Purgatory1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC

scarefire meaning in Tamil

scarefire in Tamil

தீயச்சம்

Forms of scarefire

pluralscarefires
alternative formskarefire

Origin of scarefire

From scare + fire. In some senses, alteration of scathefire.

Questions about scarefire

What does scarefire mean?
Scarefire means a fire causing alarm, i.e. a house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.
What is scarefire in Tamil?
Scarefire in Tamil is தீயச்சம். See Scarefire meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scarefire?
Scarefire is a noun.
What is the plural of scarefire?
The plural of scarefire is scarefires.

Words near scarefire in the dictionary

  1. scaredy pants
  2. scaredy-cat
  3. scaredy-cats
  4. scarefest
  5. scarefests
  6. scarefire
  7. scarefires
  8. scareful
  9. scarehead
  10. scareheaded
  11. scareheading

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scarefire (page history and authors); scarefire (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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