Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To blaze up; shoot up, as a flame.
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Examples
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She flamed out at him in an upblaze of feminine ferocity.
Brand Blotters William MacLeod Raine 1912
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None the less her force, the upblaze of feminine energy in her, crowded the little storekeeper to the wall.
Crooked Trails and Straight William MacLeod Raine 1912
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America -- the thing most truly typical in a land where national types are sought for microscopically: wheel-horses who came at the party call; men who came in the temporary upblaze of enthusiastic patriotism, which is lighted with the opening of the campaign, and which goes out like a candle in a gust of wind the day after the election; men who came to applaud blindly, and a few who came to cavil and deride.
The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893
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