blaze

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large, strong, bright fire.

   Firefighters fought for hours to control the blaze.

2. 2
   verb

   To burn brightly and strongly.

   The campfire blazed late into the night.

3. 3
   verb

   To shine very brightly.

   The summer sun blazed down on the beach.

Multiword verbs with blaze

• blaze up Phrasal verb B2

  to begin burning with a bright, strong flame

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Simplified etymology

Blaze was used in Old English for a bright flame. The later sense “white streak on a horse’s face,” recorded in the mid-17th century, is probably related through the idea of brightness or shining; in North America it soon also denoted a white mark cut into a tree to show a route or boundary.

] A 1639 borrowing, perhaps from Dutch bles or Middle Low German blesse, bles, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *blasī, from Proto-Germanic *blasį̄, from *blasaz (“white, pale (of animals)”) + *-į̄ (forming nouns), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“shiny, white”). Cognate with German Blesse, Swedish bläs. The verb is from the noun.

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