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# blaze

«blaze» in Mova's school dictionary: **A large, strong fire that burns brightly, often one that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a blaze, blazes); verb (blaze, blazes, blazed, blazing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A large, strong fire that burns brightly, often one that is dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#m1)

2) A very bright light or colour: a blaze of colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#m2)

3) (verb) To burn brightly and strongly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#m3)

4) A white stripe down the face of a horse or other animal, or a mark cut on a tree to show a path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#m4)

5) (verb) In «blaze a trail»: to be the first to do something new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In news and safety lessons, firefighters «tackle a blaze»; children learn fire safety. In stories, «the fire blazed in the hearth» is cosy. Phrases: blaze of glory, blaze a trail, guns blazing, What the blazes? (old, mild exclamation).

### examples

- Firefighters fought the blaze for hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#x1)
- The fire blazed in the fireplace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#x2)
- The garden was a blaze of colour in summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#x3)
- The horse has a white blaze on its nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#x4)
- She blazed a trail for women in science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#x5)
- The sun blazed down on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#x6)
- What the blazes is going on here? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#x7)
- It was now the beginning of summer, and each day the sun blazed more fiercely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/#x8)

### note

Countable as a fire: two blazes. «Blazing» means very bright or very hot. «What the blazes» is old-fashioned and mild. Do not confuse with «blazer», a school jacket.

### In the corpora

- [Scornful men set a city in a blaze; but wise men turn away wrath.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.840/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blaze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blaze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.