blazed (up)

verb

past tense of blaze (up)
as in erupted
to develop suddenly and violently after years of decline, street crime blazed up again

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blazed (up)
  1. erupted
  2. exploded
  3. broke out
Verb
  • Earlier Monday, some residents returned to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend, covering yards in charred debris.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Sleep was beginning to finally visit the insomniacs and drunkards of T—in central Manila when a commotion louder than the usual domestic squabbles erupted from the room above Mang Calixto’s bakery.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of erupted
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  • That memecoin briefly exploded in value – and then crashed in an epic selloff that left nearly a million investors facing losses.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • When generative AI exploded, many of the legacy giants didn't rebuild their architecture to support real-time data pipelines or autonomous agents.
    — Sridhar Yerramreddy, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of exploded
Verb
  • Last month, OpenAI agents broke out of a training environment and hacked open-source software developer platform Hugging Face, raising concerns over the rapid evolution of powerful AI and cybersecurity tools.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Vorobyov said several fires broke out in an industrial zone in the Moscow region following a drone attack, damaging an electrical substation and an administrative building.
    — Kosta Gak, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of broke out
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