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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blaze \Blaze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blazed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Blazing}.]
     1. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire
        blazes.
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     2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to
        show a blaze.
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              And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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     3. To be resplendent. --Macaulay.
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     {To blaze away}, to discharge a firearm, or to continue
        firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of
        soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blazing \Blaz"ing\, a.
     Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.
     --Sir W. Scott.
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     {Blazing star}.
     (a) A comet. [Obs.]
     (b) A brilliant center of attraction.
     (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to
         {Cham[ae]lirium luteum} of the Lily family; {Liatris
         squarrosa}; and {Aletris farinosa}, called also
         {colicroot} and {star grass}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blazing
       adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights";
              "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the
              glaring sun" [syn: {blinding}, {dazzling}, {fulgent},
              {glaring}, {glary}]
       2: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze
          (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were
          aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight
          on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a
          burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on
          fire" [syn: {ablaze(p)}, {afire(p)}, {aflame(p)}, {aflare(p)},
           {alight(p)}, {burning}, {flaming}, {on fire(p)}]
       3: without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
          "open disregard of the law"; "open family strife"; "open
          hostility"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing
          indiscretion" [syn: {blatant}, {conspicuous}, {open}]
       n : a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread
           rapidly" [syn: {blaze}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  81 Moby Thesaurus words for "blazing":
     ablaze, afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, blistering,
     branding, burning, calcination, candent, candescent, carbonization,
     cauterization, cautery, cineration, comburent, combustion,
     concremation, conflagrant, cracking, cremation, cupellation,
     deflagration, destructive distillation, distillation, distilling,
     fervent, fervid, fiery, flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing,
     flashy, flickering, fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, glowing,
     guttering, ignescent, ignited, in a blaze, in a glow, in flames,
     incandescent, incineration, inflamed, kindled, live, living,
     meteoric, on fire, oxidation, oxidization, parching, passionate,
     perfervid, pyrolysis, red-hot, reeking, refining, scintillant,
     scintillating, scorching, scorification, searing, self-immolation,
     singeing, smelting, smoking, smoldering, sparking, suttee,
     the stake, thermogenesis, unextinguished, unquenched, vesication
  
  

















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