[
US
/ˈfɫeɪm/
]
[ UK /flˈeɪm/ ]
[ UK /flˈeɪm/ ]
VERB
-
be in flames or aflame
The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset -
shine with a sudden light
The night sky flared with the massive bombardment -
criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium
the person who posted an inflammatory message got flamed
NOUN
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the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke
fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries
How To Use flame In A Sentence
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
- The students come to handicuffs over it; they spill the wine, and it turns into flame. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'
- Local residents rushed to rescue dogs from the flames before fire engines arrived. Times, Sunday Times
- Minutes after they escaped, there was a fire flashover and the whole building went up in flames.
- To date, American Suzuki has received two reports of flame arrester screens detaching from the mounting ring. Product Recalls For The Week of July 3-10, 2010 | myFiveBest
- A catapult fired point-blank, and flames broke over the roiled water, but it was pointless.
- Tell me, exactly what happens when the first C130 full of blokes cops a Manpad up it's jacksie and crash lands in flames? Army Rumour Service
- Throw the water over the flames.
- But the flames were beginning to burn him and the smoke was filling his head.