Conflagration
[,kɒnflə'greɪʃ(ə)n] or [,kɑnflə'ɡreʃən]
Definition
(n.) A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Great burning, general fire.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ignition, fire, combustion, arson, incendiarism
ANT:Extinction, smoulder, quenching
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a conflagration, denotes, if no lives are lost, changes in the future which will be beneficial to your interests and happiness. See Fire.
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Examples
- The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen--by conflagration: but how kindled? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- An arm of the main conflagration had shot out a half mile south of its parent to embrace this tiny strip of road in its implacable clutches. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The woods were set on fire by the bursting shells, and the conflagration raged. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Cold news, said Waldemar, to us, though you speak of fire and conflagration. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In the roaring and raging of the conflagration, a red-hot wind, driving straight from the infernal regions, seemed to be blowing the edifice away. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Our only hope is to quench this conflagration and trust to fate that a year will find your Princess alive and well. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She made a great point of being so near the river, in case of a conflagration; and I suppose really did find some satisfaction in that circumstance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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