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blaze

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of blaze

1 a sudden intense expression of strong feeling
  • she felt a blaze of resentment upon hearing that she had been passed over for promotion
Synonyms of blaze

agony, burst, ebullition, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare-up, flash, flush, gale, gush, gust, outburst, paroxysm, spasm, storm
Words Related to blaze

blowup, grouch, rage, tantrum

ecstasy, rapture, transport

delirium, firestorm, frenzy, furor
2 the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible
  • temporarily blinded by the blaze of dozens of camera lights
Synonyms of blaze

flare, fluorescence, glare, gleam, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luminescence, radiance, shine
Words Related to blaze

flash, glimmer, glint, glitter, scintillation, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle

daylight, moonlight, sunlight, sunshine

afterglow, aureole (or aureola), aurora, beam, halo, ray, shaft, streak, stream, sunbeam

glisten, gloss, luster (or lustre), polish, reflection, sheen
Near Antonyms of blaze

blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, dusk, duskiness, gloom, night, shadow
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blaze

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of blaze

to make known openly or publicly
  • the White House didn't waste a minute in blazing the lower unemployment figures
Synonyms of blaze

advertise, announce, annunciate, blare, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpet
Words Related to blaze

bark, call (off or out), cry

bill, billboard, bulletin, gazette [chiefly British]

knell, ring, toll

blurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puff

disseminate, spread

disclose, divulge, introduce, kithe [chiefly Scottish], manifest, report, reveal, show

advise, apprise, hand down, inform, notify

communicate, impart, intimate
Phrases Synonymous with blaze

beat the drum (for or about), run with
Near Antonyms of blaze

conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold

recall, recant, retract, revoke
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blaze

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of blaze

1 to be on fire especially brightly
  • the house blazed for over three hours in the late-night fire
Synonyms of blaze

burn, combust, flame, glow
Words Related to blaze

catch, enkindle

deflagrate, fire, ignite, kindle

flare (up), light (up)

flicker, gutter, waver

bake, broil, char, cook, melt, roast, scorch, swelter

smolder (or smoulder), spark, sputter

beam, brighten, radiate

beat (down), flash, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, shine, sparkle, twinkle
Phrases Synonymous with blaze

go up in flames
2 to shine with a bright harsh light
  • the spotlight blazed through my window
Synonyms of blaze

beat, burn, flame, flare, glare
Words Related to blaze

beam, glow, radiate

flash, glance, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glister, glitter, scintillate, shimmer, sparkle, twinkle

bedazzle, blind, daze, dazzle
3 to proceed or move quickly
  • an extreme skier went blazing down the ski slope at a reckless pace
Synonyms of blaze

barrel, belt, blast, blow, bolt, bomb [slang], bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, crack (on), dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, step, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom
Words Related to blaze

beetle, dart, flit, scamper, scud, scuffle

stampede, streak, whiz (or whizz)

gallop, jog, sprint

accelerate, quicken, step out

catch up, fast-forward, outpace, outrun, outstrip, overtake

arrow, beeline
Phrases Synonymous with blaze

beat it, get a move on, make tracks, shake a leg, step on it
Near Antonyms of blaze

dally, dawdle, dillydally, drag, hang (around or out), lag, linger, loiter, poke, tarry

amble, lumber, plod, saunter, shuffle, stroll

decelerate, slow (down or up)
Antonyms of blaze

crawl, creep, poke

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