blaze

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   noisy and unrestrained mischief

   raising blazes

2. 2
   noun

   a light-colored marking

   they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes

3. 3
   noun

   a strong flame that burns brightly

   the blaze spread rapidly

4. 4
   verb

   to indicate by marking trees with blazes

   We blazed the new trail we built with orange paint marks.

5. 5
   verb

   to shoot rapidly and repeatedly

   They blazed away at the enemies.

6. 6
   verb

   to move rapidly and as if blazing

   The spaceship blazed out into space.

7. 7
   verb

   to burn brightly and intensely

   The sun is blazing today!

8. 8
   verb

   to shine brightly and intensively

   Meteors blazed across the atmosphere.

Etymology

] 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.