blaze

1. 1.

   shine brightly and intensively

   “Meteors blazed across the atmosphere”

   Broadershine
2. 2.

   shoot rapidly and repeatedly

   “He blazed away at the men”

   Synonymsblaze away

   Broaderblast
3. 3.

   burn brightly and intensely

   “The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze”

   Broaderburn
4. 4.

   move rapidly and as if blazing

   “The spaceship blazed out into space”

   Synonymsblaze out

   Broaderdepart
5. 5.

   indicate by marking trees with blazes

   “blaze a trail”

   Broadermark

Other forms of blaze

plural

blazes·

past tense

blazed·

present participle

blazing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blaze

What does blaze mean?

blaze means "a strong flame that burns brightly". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blaze?

blaze has 1 syllable: blaze. In IPA it is /ˈbleɪz/.

What is another word for blaze?

Close synonyms include blazing, hell, hell, glare, brilliance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blaze a common word?

blaze is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with blaze?

2 words rhyme with blaze. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.