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flaming

 
Adjective flaming has 4 senses
  1. ablaze, flaming - resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves"
    Antonyms: colorless, colourless (indirect, via colorful)
  2. ablaze, afire, aflame, aflare, alight, blazing, burning, flaming, on fire - lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire"
    Antonyms: unlighted, unlit (indirect, via lighted)
  3. bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking - (used of persons) informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
    Antonym: mitigated (indirect, via unmitigated)
  4. fiery, flaming - very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions"
    Antonym: cold (indirect, via hot)
Noun flaming has 1 sense
  1. fire, flame, flaming - the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
    --1 is a kind of combustion, burning
    --1 has particulars: blaze, blazing; flare
    Derived form: verb flame2
Verb flame has 3 senses
  1. flare, flame - shine with a sudden light; "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"
    --1 is one way to shine, beam
    Sample sentences:
    Lights flame on the horizon
    The horizon is flameing with lights
  2. flame - be in flames or aflame; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"
    --2 is one way to
    burn, combust
    Derived forms: noun flame1, noun flaming1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  3. flame - criticize harshly, on the e-mail
    --3 is one way to
    chastise, castigate, objurgate, chasten, correct
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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