flaming

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The latest addition to the cyber vocabulary is "flaming" - a form of online verbal abuse using capital letters to express aggression.

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  1. adjective On fire; ablaze.
  2. adjective Resembling a flame in brilliance, color, or form: flaming autumn leaves.
  3. adjective Intense; ardent: flaming passions.

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  • No flaming is allowed on this site!My correspondent asks where people are from.
  • He threw back his head and the solar glare was like a flaming, invisible hand clasping his features After he had run for a time, the ghostly spell slipped away from his sinews, and he traveled more lightly. —  017 - The Thousand Headed Man
  • The latest addition to the cyber vocabulary is "flaming" - a form of online verbal abuse using capital letters to express aggression. —  An Onymous Lefty
  • Her cheeks and eyes were flaming, and the drummers were not slow to respond to the challenge which she flashed at them from under her drooped lids Ah, there, my beauty!" —  Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
  • He reached over and held a stick in the fire till the end of it was all flaming, then he stuck it in the ground near his head and pulled a clipping out of his pocket. —  Roy Blakely, Pathfinder
 

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flaming:   flame ·  flames ·  flamed
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/ˈfleɪmɪŋ/
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