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View definitions for flaming

flaming

adjective as in burning

adjective as in very angry, vehement

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The candlelight flickered in the lenses of Edward Ashton’s glasses as if his eyes might shoot flaming arrows at her.

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A moment later, he was screaming again as they leaped over flaming wreckage and dropped to a safe corner of the main platform.

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Thousands have flocked to a rural town to see flaming tar barrels carried along its streets for Bonfire Night.

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I yanked the pin and doused her flaming underwear drawers with a heavy dose of CO2.

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At least one protester had previously been charged in state court with throwing a flaming item at a CHP vehicle from the overpass.

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

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