blaze

/blˈeɪz/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

noun

1. a strong flame that burns brightly
   “the blaze spread rapidly”
2. a cause of difficulty and suffering
   “war is hell”
3. noisy and unrestrained mischief
   “raising blazes”
4. a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
   “a glare of sunlight”
5. a light-colored marking
   “they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes”

verb

1. shine brightly and intensively
   “Meteors blazed across the atmosphere”
2. shoot rapidly and repeatedly
   “He blazed away at the men”
3. burn brightly and intensely
   “The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze”
4. move rapidly and as if blazing
   “The spaceship blazed out into space”
5. indicate by marking trees with blazes
   “blaze a trail”

Synonyms for blaze

• blazing
• hell
• glare
• brilliance
• blaze away
• blaze out

Words that rhyme with blaze

• raise
• glaze
• graze
• phase
• phrase
• always
• craze
• sideways
• ablaze
• daze
• haze
• blase
• praise
• amaze
• appraise
• chaise
• edgeways
• gaze
• lengthways
• maize
• maze
• nowadays
• paraphrase
• anyways
• baize
• braise
• dais
• days
• faze
• kinase