Definitions for blazing

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blazing blaz·ing

Spelling: [bley-zing]

IPA: /ˈbleɪ zɪŋ/

Blazing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in blazing (abgilnz).

Definitions for blazing

noun

1. a bright flame or fire:
2. a bright, hot gleam or glow:
3. a sparkling brightness:
4. a sudden, intense outburst, as of fire, passion, or fury:
5. blazes, Informal. hell:
6. a spot or mark made on a tree, as by painting or notching or by chipping away a piece of the bark, to indicate a trail or boundary.
7. a white area down the center of the face of a horse, cow, etc.

adjective

1. burning brightly and with great heat, force, etc.
2. of tremendous intensity or fervor:

verb (used with object)

1. to mark with blazes:
2. to lead in forming or finding (a new method, course, etc.):
3. to make known; proclaim; publish:
4. Obsolete. to blow, as from a trumpet.

verb (used without object)

1. to burn brightly (sometimes followed by away, up, forth):
2. to shine like flame (sometimes followed by forth):
3. to burn with intense feeling or passion (sometimes followed by up):
4. to shoot steadily or continuously (usually followed by away):
5. to be brilliantly conspicuous.

Origin of blazing

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at blaze¹, -ing²

Examples for blazing

MacFarlane clearly did not make the same gambles Brooks did when he came out with blazing Saddles.

As part of the writing team on blazing Saddles, he gave its parody of the Western a sharper political edge.

There is a coolness amid all the heat, a mildness in the blazing noon.

Her eyes were blazing with an anger the more fierce in that some of it was reaction.

But the windows in the blazing sunshine were dressed in dark winter clothes which made the town seem even more out of synch.

The day was blazing hot, and there was n't a cloud to be seen.

This was on the evening before, while they sat by the blazing fire in the cabin.

In a half-circle around a blazing campfire, the women shake rattles in creepy unison.

Normality, domesticity, ease, in the blazing Arizona desert.

But was it not a little hard upon me, to be kept from blazing on a Sunday?