blazes
blazes Lexical Profile
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• noun
The plural of blaze: large, fiercely burning fires or bright, glaring displays of light or color.
"Firefighters worked through the night to contain the multiple blazes across the dry valley."
A mild euphemism for hell, used informally in exclamations or to add emphasis to a question or statement.
"What in blazes were they thinking when they left the cabin door unlocked overnight?"
• verb
To burn fiercely or shine brightly and intensely (third-person singular present of blaze).
"The afternoon sun blazes down on the desert sand during the height of summer."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from Old English 'blæse', meaning a torch or bright fire, from a Proto-Germanic root signifying shining or white; the informal plural sense referring to hell arose in the 19th century as a euphemistic allusion to the fires of the underworld.