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

The nearest air quality monitor to the fires indicates that the worst pollution was detected on June 17 and has fluctuated in the following days depending on wind direction, weather and emergency workers’ efforts to contain the blazes. —

Allison Beck june 19, Miami Herald, 19 June 2026 Nobody was injured in the blazes. —

ABC News, 15 June 2026 Rising temperatures and gusty winds also fed blazes across Central Florida, causing some to explode in size. —

Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026 The crews are working to create a network of vegetation-free pathways, called fuel breaks, that can slow fires and give firefighters strategic access to wildlands to combat blazes. —

Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026 The Outerbelt isn’t marked with signs or trail blazes. —

Diane Penningroth, Midwest Living, 12 June 2026 Setting intentional forest fires and letting other low-severity ones burn can significantly lower the chances of extreme blazes torching those same areas in the future, according to a new study released Thursday, while reducing toxic smoke over time. —

Brianna Sacks, Washington Post, 11 June 2026 The actor previously slammed Bass for leaving the country on a trip to Ghana as the blazes erupted. —

Ashley Hume , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026 By that point, blazes had ignited in the Midwest. —

Abe Streep, ProPublica, 9 June 2026

Verb

While prosecution witnesses have refused to delineate between the Lachman and Palisades blazes, Haney has repeatedly described them as two distinct incidents that ignited days apart. —

Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026 Fewer, but more ‘devastating’ blazes That the world suffered fewer acres torched by wildfires in 2025 likely comes as little relief to the countries and cities that battled the infernos last year. —

Tristan Bove, Fortune, 1 June 2026 That’s the two-seamer that kind of blazes a trail in. —

Jayson Stark, New York Times, 29 May 2026 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for blazes

Noun

Another toxic chemical crisis A massive fire at a Boyle Heights cold-storage warehouse triggered an ammonia leak, explosions and shelter-in-place orders across Eastside neighborhoods.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
Moscow’s mayor said air defenses shot down nearly 200 drones, as videos circulating on social media showed explosions and smoke billowing across the Russian capital.

— Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 19 June 2026