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flame up

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But the sight of a fireplace and plenty of dry wood ready to flame up at the spurt of a match heartened them somewhat.

The crowd fell back, though there was no assurance that their smouldering wrath might not flame up at any moment.

Green and wet as these are, they at once catch fire and flame up like kindling-wood.

Then some of the warlike spirit that distinguished his ancestors at Lexington begins to flame up within him.

"It sometimes happens that fires, thought to be extinct, suddenly flame up," Large-Ears rejoined sagely.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to flame up, such as: blast, break out, burst, collapse, detonate, and erupt.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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