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flamed
[fleym] 
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flame
[fleym]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn |
| Synonyms: | blaze, coruscate, fire, flare, flare up, flash, glare, glint, glow, ignite, kindle, light, oxidize, shine |
| Main Entry: | burn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be on fire; set on fire |
| Synonyms: | bake, be ablaze, blaze, brand, broil, calcine, cauterize, char, combust, conflagrate, cook, cremate, enkindle, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glow, heat, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, melt, parch, reduce to ashes, rekindle, roast, scald, scorch, sear, set a match to, singe, smoke, smolder, toast, torch, wither |
| Antonyms: | cool, extinguish, put out, quench, smother, wet |
| Main Entry: | damn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | condemn, denounce |
| Synonyms: | abuse, anathematize, attack, ban, banish, blaspheme, blast, cast out, castigate, censure, complain of, confound, convict, criticize, cry down, curse, cuss, darn, denunciate, doom, drat, excommunicate, excoriate, execrate, expel, flame, fulminate against, imprecate, inveigle against, jinx, object to, objurgate, pan, penalize, proscribe, punish, revile, sentence, slam, swear, thunder against |
| Notes: | a dam is a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water while damn is used as an expletive meaning cursed, condemned to hell |
| Antonyms: | bless, cherish, commend, elevate, exalt, favor, glorify, laud, praise, promote |
| Main Entry: | flash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shimmer, flicker |
| Synonyms: | beam, bedazzle, blaze, blink, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, glance, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, incandesce, light, phosphoresce, radiate, reflect, scintillate, shine, shoot out, spangle, spark, sparkle, twinkle |
| Main Entry: | flush |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become or make pink or red |
| Synonyms: | blush, burn, color, color up, crimson, flame, glow, go red, mantle, pink, pinken, redden, rose, rouge, suffuse |
| Antonyms: | pale, uncolor |
| Main Entry: | glare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shine very brightly |
| Synonyms: | beam, blare, blaze, blind, blur, daze, dazzle, flame, flare, glaze, glow, radiate |
| Main Entry: | glow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | burn, radiate |
| Synonyms: | be suffused, blare, blaze, blush, brighten, color, crimson, fill, flame, flare, flush, gleam, glimmer, glisten, glitter, ignite, kindle, light, mantle, pink, pinken, redden, rose, rouge, shine, smolder, thrill, tingle, twinkle |
| Main Entry: | heat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become hot |
| Synonyms: | bake, bask, blaze, boil, broil, calorify, chafe, char, enflame, enkindle, fire, flame, flush, frizzle, fry, glow, grill, grow hot, grow warm, ignite, incandesce, incinerate, inflame, kindle, melt, oxidate, oxidize, perspire, raise the temperature, reheat, roast, scald, scorch, sear, seethe, set on fire, singe, smelt, steam, sun, swelter, tepefy, thaw, toast, warm, warm up |
| Antonyms: | cool, freeze |
| Main Entry: | incinerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | reduce to ashes |
| Synonyms: | blaze, burn, combust, consume, cremate, flame, ignite, light, parch, scald, scorch, set a match to, torch |
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