BLAZES Synonyms: 278 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of blaze

as in explosions

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

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as in glows

the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible temporarily blinded by the blaze of dozens of camera lights

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blazes

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verb (1)

present tense third-person singular of blaze

as in announces

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

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blazes

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verb (2)

present tense third-person singular of blaze

as in burns

to be on fire especially brightly the house blazed for over three hours in the late-night fire

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as in flames

to shine with a bright harsh light the spotlight blazed through my window

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as in races

to proceed or move quickly an extreme skier went blazing down the ski slope at a reckless pace

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Recent Examples of blazes

Noun

As wildfires get more extreme, agency personnel have less time to reduce vegetation, known as hazardous fuels work, which sets the stage for even bigger blazes. —

Lauren Sommer, NPR, 4 May 2026 Ben Allen, 48, is a third-term Democratic state senator who represents the Palisades fire zone and, since the blazes, has authored bills that provide tax relief to fire victims and raise payments for personal property losses. —

Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026 While summer wildfires are inevitable, federal disaster aid to help those impacted by blazes is no longer dependable. —

Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 30 Apr. 2026 World Central Kitchen has mobilized in Brantley County, serving hundreds of meals to firefighters, EMS, and other emergency workers battling the blazes and helping to rebuild neighborhoods. —

Cbs News Atlanta Digital Team, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026 Wildfires in Georgia and Florida continue to burn thousands of acres more than a week after the blazes began. —

Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026 Scientists have said that devastating wildfires will become more common in a warming world, and studies have shown that blazes will not only be more frequent, but also more destructive, as a result of climate change. —

Denise Chow, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026 Wildfire emergency in the Southeast As two major wildfires continue to ravage southern Georgia, state officials and investigators said Friday the blazes may have been sparked by two unnatural events, one of which involved a wayward balloon. —

Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026 Battery fires can be more challenging to extinguish and clean up, though fire departments are increasingly trained to handle lithium-ion blazes. —

Bloomberg, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026

Verb

Officials are spreading the word in the wake of deadly fires within the last month that killed five people in Manhattan and the Bronx, blazes that could have been more easily contained if doors were used to help snuff out the flames. —

Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 8 May 2026 Studies have shown that rising temperatures due to climate change are fueling longer wildfire seasons, and making blazes both more frequent and more destructive. —

Kathryn Prociv, NBC news, 23 Apr. 2026 Once Orion blazes through Earth's atmosphere, the protective heat shield will be cast off to make way for parachutes to deploy and slow the vehicle down. —

Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026 Low toward the west blazes Venus, which serves as a convenient celestial landmark to make a sighting of Mercury, which will be hovering not far from it. —

Joe Rao, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026 Jesse steps up on the mound and blazes the ball past him. —

Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair, 20 Feb. 2026 But Peter Jackson’s team in New Zealand gave it the Get Back treatment, restoring the footage to life, as Elvis blazes onstage in 1969. —

Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026 All firefighters have significantly higher cancer risks than the general population, but less is understood about the health of wildland firefighters than of their counterparts who battle blazes in buildings and other structures. —

Abe Streep, ProPublica, 10 Feb. 2026 The council in 2024 rejected a 498-unit apartment complex nearby in Deer Canyon over similar concerns related to evacuations and the area’s proneness to blazes. —

Victoria Le, Oc Register, 14 Jan. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blazes

Noun

Use of inert bombs – or bombs with a small yield – could explain the lack of a large explosions or secondary blasts that an explosive warhead could cause, analysts said.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
The first of these explosions was spotted in 2018, and only 14 have been detected since, leading to a solid mystery for astronomers.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 May 2026