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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
blazing
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blazing/flaming row (=a very angry row)
▪ She had a blazing row with Eddie and stormed out of the house.
bright/brilliant/blazing/dazzling sunshine
▪ We stepped out of the plane into the bright sunshine of Corfu.
burning/blazing/smoking wreckage
▪ He managed to crawl away from the burning wreckage.
eyes blazing with fury
▪ Jo stepped forward, her eyes blazing with fury.
raging/blazing inferno
▪ Within minutes, the house had become a raging inferno.
sb’s eyes are burning/smouldering/blazing with hateliterary
▪ Then he noticed the dark eyes, smouldering with hate.
the blazing/burning sun
▪ Tourists trudge around in the blazing sun.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fire
▪ It might have been the blazing fire in the corner of this very upmarket restaurant.
▪ She is best remembered for extinguishing a blazing fire by making the sign of the cross.
▪ He threw off the blanket, picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire.
▪ However, whether a small spark is struck or a blazing fire lit, the flame is the same.
▪ He came through as she was slamming the food on to the low coffee-table in front of the obediently blazing fire.
▪ I settled happily before the blazing fire, musing upon the stupidity of salmon fishing and certain of my friends.
▪ She greeted Charlotte in a drawing room strewn with plants and pictures where an impassive bloodhound dozed before a blazing fire.
row
▪ Charles summoned Adeane, they had yet another blazing row, and Adeane returned to the more predictable workings of the Bar.
▪ You know how it is: one minute you're talking, the next there's a blazing row.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with all guns blazing
▪ Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing.
▪ Kasparov has won, but Karpov went down with all guns blazing to an honourable defeat.
▪ Naomi has moved in, with all guns blazing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ At twilight, the blazing orange sunset turned into a muted pink.
▪ The blazing lights of the casino shone out across the bay.
▪ the blazing reds and oranges of the flowers
▪ The heat from the blazing car could be felt several metres away.
▪ They sat on the sofa in front of a blazing fire.
▪ We stood for hours in the blazing sun.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Charles summoned Adeane, they had yet another blazing row, and Adeane returned to the more predictable workings of the Bar.
▪ Soon after lunch, as they sheltered from the blazing heat, Julie stretched out on a towel and blanket.
▪ The blazing wreckage crashed into wild, inaccessible countryside only eight miles from the airport.
▪ The lightning was the forked kind and it branched suddenly like a firework and yet like the limb of a blazing tree.
▪ These mighty creatures made their lairs beneath the blazing peaks of the Dragon Spine Mountains.
▪ Tiny figures in the distance, silhouetted against the flames, rushed about trying to extinguish the blazing hangars.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blazing

Blaze \Blaze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blazed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blazing.]

  1. To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.

  2. To send forth or reflect glowing or brilliant light; to show a blaze.

    And far and wide the icy summit blazed.
    --Wordsworth.

  3. To be resplendent.
    --Macaulay.

    To blaze away, to discharge a firearm, or to continue firing; -- said esp. of a number of persons, as a line of soldiers. Also used (fig.) of speech or action. [Colloq.]

Blazing

Blazing \Blaz"ing\, a. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. --Sir W. Scott. Blazing star.

  1. A comet. [Obs.]

  2. A brilliant center of attraction.

  3. (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Cham[ae]lirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blazing

late 14c., "shining," also "vehement," present participle adjective from blaze (v.1). As a mild or euphemistic epithet, attested from 1888 (no doubt connected with the blazes in colloquial sense of "Hell").

Wiktionary
blazing
  1. 1 Very fast. 2 (context sarcastically English) Very slow. 3 (context slang of a person English) Sexually attractive. 4 Of tremendous intensity or fervor; white-hot. 5 (context colloquial English) exceedingly angry. n. The act of something that blazes or burns. v

  2. (present participle of blaze English)

WordNet
blazing
  1. adj. shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]

  2. lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), burning, flaming, on fire(p)]

  3. without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "open disregard of the law"; "open family strife"; "open hostility"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blatant, conspicuous, open]

  4. n. a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly" [syn: blaze]

Wikipedia
Blazing

Blazing or blazin' can refer to;

  • Trail blazing, practice of marking outdoor pathways.
  • A technique for changing the energy distribution of dispersed light from a diffraction grating by altering the shape of the slits.
  • A slang term for smoking marijuana
  • "Blazin", a song by Nicki Minaj from Pink Friday
  • "Blazin", a song by Bliss n Eso
  • "Blazin", a song by Alison Hinds from Soca Queen
  • "Blazin", a song by In This Moment from A Star-Crossed Wasteland
  • "Blazin", a song by MC Tali
  • "Blazin", a song by Ghislain Poirier
  • "Blazin", an album by Jenny Wilson

Usage examples of "blazing".

When she turned around, her eyes were blazing hot, tears and all, and she seemed to have forgotten Mistress Anan for the moment.

Paran, Spindle, Blend, Antsy, Mallet and Bluepearl sat at the one nearest the blazing hearth, barely managing a word among them.

If the baronet had given two or three blazing dinners in the great hall he would have deceived people generally, as he did his relatives and intimates.

His hulking, lopsided figure, cloaked in a heavy bearskin, was silhouetted against the blazing fire.

She had begun to wonder if Harold might not just go crackers some night and start blazing away with his two pistols.

A stormy scene resulted which left the old housekeeper spent and Beryl blazing with indignation.

Sword blazing in the sun, he bestrode the Elderling Dragon-King as together they rose into the sky to do battle against the Red Ships.

Farinelli, and climbed into the saddle, trying to ignore the blazing sun and dust as she rode beside Brill and toward the hall.

Smith readily agreed to do a series of novelettes constructed around the character Neal Cloud, a professional blaster of atomic vortices from power plants out of control, an extrapolation of the business of dynamiting blazing oil wells.

The sun was still blazing from the advancing aircraft, but Mahnmut could see that it was a chariot now, its holographic horses in full gallop.

I found it coming along both sides about a mile off, blazing twenty feet high, and the draught of it carrying every leaf off the mallee as fast as the flames touched them.

Then, turning to the shocked and secretly delighted guestswho would all dine out on this for monthsshe produced a smile to outdazzle the blazing lustrossos.

It is expressed by the five-pointed or blazing star, the mysterious Pentalpha of Pythagoras.

Eoghan bellowed as hundreds of wolves suddenly appeared from all directions, leaping out of secret places among the quitch, their eyes blazing with duchan-tainted fire.

Three fourths of all mankind consisted of gaunt, bony, blond-haired individuals with chiselled features and blazing blue eyes, the men six feet or taller in height, the women some inches shorterthe remaining fourth being the Racketts, Mudges, and Blunts, our farm families, who after generations of intermarriage had coalesced into a tribe of squat, black-haired, gap-toothed, moon-faced males and females seldom taller than five feet lour or five inches.