blaze

Meaning

Noun

1. A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
2. Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
3. The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
4. A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
5. A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
6. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
7. A hand consisting of five face cards.

Verb

1. To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
2. To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
3. To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
4. To set in a blaze; burn.
5. To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
6. To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
7. To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
8. To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
9. To mark off or stake a claim to land.
10. To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
11. To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
12. (slang) To smoke marijuana.

Verb

1. To blow, as from a trumpet.
2. To publish; announce publicly.
3. To disclose; bewray; defame.
4. To blazon.

Synonyms

flame

fire

🔥

burn

flare

glow

shine

conflagration

glare

gleam

flash

hell

flare up

incandesce

ignite

flames

brilliance

burning

catch fire

tongue of fire

blazing

blaze away

sparkle

❇️

take fire

burn up

ardour

flicker

glory

glitter

glisten

light up

lustre

blaze out

zeal

ignition

be on fire

heat

inflammation

blaze up

ablaze

burn fiercely

burn brightly

gibe

glimmer

glint

glorious

grandeur

hack

hot

🥵

illumination

indicate

inferno

inflame

irradiation

jeer

jot

jot down

kindled

kindling

label

🏷️

light

lighted

lightning

luxuriousness

make a note

mark

mock

mockery

note

pioneer

publish

purgatory

pyre

radiance

radiancy

radiate

rage

😡

reflection

refulgence

remove

ridicule

roar

scoff

scorch

scorn

scream

😱

sear

sheen

shimmer

shout

smoke

smolder

smoulder

snarl

spark

splendor

splendour

spot

stand out

stimulated

straight flush

stump

target

thunder

🌩️

tick

be ablaze

trumpet

🎺

twinkle

twit

volley

yell

become inflamed

burning coal

burst into flame

Hell

notch up

take notice

destroy by fire

shine brilliantly

be radiant

fulgurate

radiation

shine at

flame forth

resplend

shoulder in

violent disorder

blazon abroad

trail mark

be in flame

trail marker

anchusa

beam

bellow

blasphemy

blast

blazon

blow up

bluster

bonfire

break out

brilliant

bulldoze

burnish

burst forth

cannon

chalk

check

clear

clear-cut

coal

combustion

crisscross

declare

derision

devil

divulge

eager

eclat

enthusiastic

erupt

excel at

fierceness

firestorm

flair

flame up

flaming

flare-up

fleer

flush

fusillade

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bleɪz/

Etymology

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”). Compare Dutch bles (“blaze”), German Blesse (“blaze, mark on an animal's forehead”), Swedish bläs (“blaze”).