Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Burning intensely; blazing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Burning; involved in a conflagration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Burning together in a common flame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective brightly burning
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Claire chucks bits of wood onto the conflagrant pile and slams the stove door before they can spill out.
Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010
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Why did God let those websites crash when His believers were making their holy virtual pilgrimage to the images of the conflagrant cleric?
Holy Smoke! 2007
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Why did God let those websites crash when His believers were making their holy virtual pilgrimage to the images of the conflagrant cleric?
Holy Smoke! 2007
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The freshman had begun to read his essay in a loud, declamatory style; but gradually, knowing with an orator's instinct, I suppose, that his audience was not 'with' him, he had quieted down, and become rather nervous -- too nervous to skip, as I am sure he wished to skip, the especially conflagrant passages.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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Her two-song cameo, near the concert's midpoint, had all the rude conflagrant force of a meteor crashing onto the stage.
NYT > Home Page By NATE CHINEN 2012
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The images, mostly breathtaking-horrifying aerial shots of an alternately lunar and conflagrant post-Gulf War Kuwaiti landscape, are at least strictly documentary; the formal framework, however-including various pieces of classical music; XIII portentously titled chapters; and a Herzog voiceover filled with vague destruction-myth proclamations ( "And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell") - suggests post-apocalyptic fiction.
Culture Guide Benjamin Mercer 2010
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Throughout the span of modern European political and cultural clash, the tension between these sets of ideas has bred conflagrant rebellion and uproarious revolution, new beginnings and salient renewals.
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The images, mostly breathtaking-horrifying aerial shots of an alternately lunar and conflagrant post-Gulf War Kuwaiti landscape, are at least strictly documentary; the formal framework, however-including various pieces of classical music; XIII portentously titled chapters; and a Herzog voiceover filled with vague destruction-myth proclamations ( "And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell") - suggests post-apocalyptic fiction.
The L Magazine - New York City's Local Event and Arts & Culture Guide 2010
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Throughout the span of modern European political and cultural clash, the tension between these sets of ideas has bred conflagrant rebellion and uproarious revolution, new beginnings and salient renewals.
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Conflagrate means to burn up, with its archaic form, conflagrant - burning.
murderati 2009
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