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An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
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The tendency to commit arson.
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One who has committed the act of arson, or illegally setting fire to property.
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(idiomatic) A person who is especially hard-working, high-achieving, ambitious, or active.
v
(transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
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(military, figuratively) The first experience of a severe ordeal, especially a first experience of military combat
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(figuratively) a complete mess; an absolute debacle.
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To apply a blowtorch to something.
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(figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
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(obsolete) An incendiary; an inciter of quarrels.
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(obsolete, rare) A conflagration; a flame.
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A person snatched away from pressing danger.
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A controlled burn of vegetation, either to clear land, or to remove fuel and mitigate future uncontrolled fires.
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The incomplete combustion of organic material.
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Synonym of fire triangle
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(figuratively) A large-scale conflict.
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(rare) One who starts a fire.
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(rare) Synonym of Big Burn
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(obsolete) A general fire; a conflagration.
v
(transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
n
The traditional punishments of Hell.
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The visible effects of fire on a landscape.
v
(agriculture, transitive) To cause (manure) to lose its goodness and acquire an ashy hue because of the heat generated by decomposition.
v
(transitive, fantasy) To attack with balls of fire.
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arson; deliberate setting of fires
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The temperature at which a flammable oil will catch fire spontaneously.
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The act of burning a flag, especially the flag of a nation as an act of protest at that nation's activities.
adj
Alternative spelling of flambé [Being, or having been, flambéed.]
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The propagation of a flame away from its source of ignition.
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(Internet) An argument consisting entirely or largely of flames by various parties that serve only to escalate the dispute.
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A substance used to make an object flameproof.
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(Internet, slang) Alternative form of flamage [(Internet, slang) flame postings considered as a group]
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(figuratively, rare) One who keeps some idea alive.
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Obsolete spelling of flamen [(historical, Ancient Rome) a priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.]
n
An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.
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A sudden, intense fire caused by the ignition of flammable substances in the air.
n
Alternative form of Florida flambe [(derogatory) Burning (catching fire) during execution by electric chair.]
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(historical) A kind of dynamite.
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(humorous, euphemistic) hellfire
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(by extension) Any stressful situation.
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(figuratively, by extension) Any potentially harmful situation.
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(metallurgy) A fracture in a metal casting that occurs during solidification as a result of hindered contraction.
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Any type of work, such as welding, soldering, or glassblowing, that causes of a potential fire hazard because it causes sparks or flames.
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The initiation of combustion.
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(offensive) Supposed cause of a fire which is in fact deliberately lit by the property owner in order to benefit from insurance or similar such as destruction of documents.
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The act by which something is kindled.
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Foam formed by water and a fluorocarbon surfactant, used in firefighting because it floats on flammable liquids lighter than water.
v
(mining) To shape the outcome of an explosive blast by forming cracks in advance.
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(meteorology, US) A warning issued by the United States National Weather Service that conditions are ideal for wildfires.
n
Alternative spelling of St. Elmo's fire [An electrical discharge, or corona, seen around pointed objects, caused by ionization of the atmosphere during storms.]
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(obsolete) A house-burning; conflagration; scathefire.
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A flame, as of hydrogen or coal gas, burning within a tube and so adjusted as to set the air within the tube in vibration, causing sound; a chemical harmonicon.
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Alternative form of St. Anthony's fire [Ergotism, a disease characterised by gangrene and a burning sensation in the hands and feet.]
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(obsolete) A torch; a flambeau.
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(archaic) sulfur, especially in the context of fire and brimstone
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(poetic) A tall fire, as of a building.
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(idiomatic) A person, event, or thing lacking liveliness or failing to generate excitement, especially when there was a prior expectation of liveliness or excitement.
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