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verb

Flame v. t. To kindle; to inflame; to excite. "And flamed with zeal of vengeance inwardly."

Flame v. i. (past & past part. flamed; pres. part. flaming)

To burn with a flame or blaze; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion; to blaze. "The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing would make it flame again."

To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardor. "He flamed with indignation."

adjective

Flaming adj.

Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating.

Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright."

Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation or harangue.

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Etymology of 'Flaming'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flaming" Quotes from Famous Books

... eye at Lakalatcha, uncomfortably close above our heads, flaming at intervals and bathing the deck with an angry glare of light. "If she should begin spitting up a little livelier ..." he speculated with a shrug, and presently took himself off to his bunk after an inspection ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... experience. It seemed to him that in the slowly fading daylight, above the roofs of that flaming city, he beheld the dawning of another day. And yet the situation might well be considered irretrievable. Destiny appeared to have pursued them with her utmost fury; the successive disasters they had sustained were such as ...

— The Downfall • Emile Zola

... child-like, trusting people—shall behold Him again. The scene of action is placed by me in Spain, at Seville, during that terrible period of the Inquisition, when, for the greater glory of God, stakes were flaming all ...

— "The Grand Inquisitor" by Feodor Dostoevsky • Feodor Dostoevsky

... then found itself floating towards a River which must be crossed. Beyond the River lay the Happy Hunting Grounds, the Elysian fields; but to oppose the weary soul anxious to reach this paradise there ramped on the other side a huge, flaming-red bison bull, if it had been ordained by the Great Spirit that the soul's time was not yet come, this red bison pushed it back, and the soul was obliged to re-enter the body, which then awoke from its trance or swoon and resumed its ...

— Pioneers in Canada • Sir Harry Johnston

... green tunic held out his hand. It had the glittering tiny object in it. From a fifty-foot distance, he swept his hand from one end to the other of the wrecked ship. Flame leaped up. The magnesium-alloy vessel burned with a brightness that stung and dazzled the eyes. A monstrous, a colossal flaming flare leaped and soared ... and died. Too late, Soames fumbled for his camera. There was no longer a wrecked ship on the ice. There were only a ...

— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster

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