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/bleɪz/ · noun
A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light..
Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,[…].
They sought shelter from the blaze of the sun.
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, / Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse / Without all hope of day!
his blaze of wrath
For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
The campfire blazed merrily.
And far and wide the icy summit blaze.
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights.
Use blaze when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Blaze means A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light..
Common synonyms include safety orange, international orange, outburst, besmirch.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals,[…].
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