Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.

Etymologies

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furnace +‎ -like

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Examples

  • A furnacelike blast of heat hit Erec in the face when Jam opened the door.

    The Three Furies Kaza Kingsley 2010

  • He began at the bottom, as an iron caster, gulping salt water to retain body fluids in the furnacelike conditions.

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • He began at the bottom, as an iron caster, gulping salt water to retain body fluids in the furnacelike conditions.

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • He began at the bottom, as an iron caster, gulping salt water to retain body fluids in the furnacelike conditions.

    Sultan of the Steppes 2005

  • Vincent had seen her life there, not just the all-too-common poverty of her home, or the furnacelike misery of her work at the tannery, or hard-baked and pitiless Urumchi itself, but the impossibility that any of it would ever change.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Vincent had seen her life there, not just the all-too-common poverty of her home, or the furnacelike misery of her work at the tannery, or hard-baked and pitiless Urumchi itself, but the impossibility that any of it would ever change.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Vincent had seen her life there, not just the all-too-common poverty of her home, or the furnacelike misery of her work at the tannery, or hard-baked and pitiless Urumchi itself, but the impossibility that any of it would ever change.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Vincent had seen her life there, not just the all-too-common poverty of her home, or the furnacelike misery of her work at the tannery, or hard-baked and pitiless Urumchi itself, but the impossibility that any of it would ever change.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Vincent had seen her life there, not just the all-too-common poverty of her home, or the furnacelike misery of her work at the tannery, or hard-baked and pitiless Urumchi itself, but the impossibility that any of it would ever change.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Vincent had seen her life there, not just the all-too-common poverty of her home, or the furnacelike misery of her work at the tannery, or hard-baked and pitiless Urumchi itself, but the impossibility that any of it would ever change.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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