flame
/fleɪm/ verb C2- To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
- To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
- To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody). · I flamed him for spamming in my favourite newsgroup.
He/she/it flames · Past flamed · Past participle flamed · -ing form flaming
Verb forms
- Base form
- flame
- He/she/it
- flames
- Past
- flamed
- Past participle
- flamed
- -ing form
- flaming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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That pale face and flaming glance appeared to Villefort like a frightful apparition.
And it moves with the moving flame.
de Bonaparte; do not conceal anything, however serious,—let us see, the Island of Elba is a volcano, and we may expect to have issuing thence flaming and bristling war—bella, horrida bella.”
Every shade of colour they were—straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vivid flame-coloured tint.
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