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conflagration Definition

con·fla·gra·tion (kän′flə grās̸hən)

noun

a big, destructive fire

Etymology: L conflagratio < pp. of conflagrare, to burn < com-, intens. + flagrare, to burn: see black

conflagration Synonyms

conflagration

n.

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.