conflagration
conflagration
Definition
con·fla·gra·tion (kän′flə grā′s̸hən)
noun
a big, destructive fire
Etymology: L conflagratio < pp. of conflagrare, to burn < com-, intens. + flagrare, to burn: see black
conflagration
Synonyms
conflagration
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- start: There is a proper season for making attacks with fire, and special days for starting a conflagration.
- survive: The church has two great treasures, both of which survived the conflagration, more or less.
- cause: Strangely, Marinatos suggested that tsunami caused the destructive conflagrations.
- result: And in the resulting conflagration the bothy burnt down.
- become: The country is embroiled in a dispute with its neighbor Pakistan over Kashmir, which could become an international conflagration at any time.
- kindle: They carried their flaming brands toward the north, as it were ready to kindle a conflagration.
Adjective modifier
- nuclear: Yet the Indian sub-continent is probably the part of the world most subject to the risk of nuclear conflagration.
- general: These will not much help us to put out the burning social questions that threaten a general conflagration.
- final: The sound of his drum heralds its creation; his burning flame signals its final conflagration.
- great: What voice in back of our great conflagration is trying to speak?
- serious: If you get a serious conflagration in the Gulf it will affect us.
- universal: And after the end of the Second Great War, a third universal conflagration will come, so that it will determine everything.
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