Conflagration

/ˌkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/ · noun

Meaning

A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning..

Definitions by Sense

1. A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
2. (figuratively) A large-scale conflict.
3. (figuratively) A situation of great passion or emotion.

Example Sentences

It took sixty firefighters to put out the conflagration.

And back to hell his way did he take, / For the Devil thought by a slight mistake / It was general conflagration.

This was well brought out in the skillfully conducted campaigns by the various governments in appealing to the masses with their characteristic suggestible subconsciousness, stirring to the very depths the reflex consciousness of gregarious man by all sorts of direct and indirect suggestions of fear of attacks and patriotic reactions of self-defence against such attacks until the evil genie of self-preservation and fear became loose, resulting in a sweeping conflagration of a war of nations with all the horror of diseases, mutilation, and extermination of millions of human lives, over seventeen and a half millions, according to latest accounts, having perished in this world-massacre of the human race.

I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it.

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