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UK
/flˈeɪmɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈfɫeɪmɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫeɪmɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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very intense
flaming passions
a fiery temper -
informal intensifiers
what a bally (or blinking) nuisance
you flaming idiot
a crashing bore
a bloody fool
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 flaming In A Sentence
- Under the cover of darkness, exotic sports cars come alive with red-hot glowing brakes, flaming exhausts and sparks from contact as drivers battle both the elements and other drivers.
- This is particularly true of the film's climax, which somehow manages to demolish several cop cars, and find Ellen clutching a parasail and jumping through flaming hoops in water skis, yet still be completely unfunny.
- Facing off against Daredevil's way coolist foe of the day, Death-Stalker, the team-up had a great moment when the villain grabbed GR's flaming skull and was freaked to find that he wouldn't die. DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
- Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- And it's so emotive, which isn't much helped by Richard Dawkins rather inflaming the issue to promote atheism. News from the House of Sticks -
- Berndon shouted when he finally coaxed the small spark into a flaming fire.
- Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.
- Flaming Bridle was subsequently disqualified and placed last in the field of eight.
- In particular, I can't stand the central atrium; it gives me a bad eighties feeling - of wine bars, terrycloth sweatbands, neon flamingos.
- His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call. A History of English Literature