Conflagration ***

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–noun 

a destructive fire, usually an extensive one. 



Related forms:

conflagrative, adjective 



Synonyms:

See flame.



Flame, blaze, conflagration refer to the light and heat given off by combustion. 



Flame is the common word, referring to a combustion of any size: the light of a match flame. 



Blaze usually denotes a quick, hot, bright, and comparatively large flame: The fire burst into a blaze. 



Conflagration refers to destructive flames which spread over a considerable area: A conflagration destroyed Chicago. 





　

Nevertheless, Fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn. Like his best movies, it's also a statement. Bean has built a [bonfire] of contradictions and the ensuing conflagration illuminates a bit of the world. 





scorch

superficial or slight burning

change of color or injury to the texture

to scorch a [dress] while [ironing]

singe

superficial or slight burning

that takes off ends or projections

to singe [hair] 

singe the [pinfeathers] from a [chicken]

Isaach De Bankolé in the lead are [hot] enough to singe so many art school pencil ’staches.

charcoal

char

The fire charred the [paper].  

The flame charred the [steak].  

char[s], a char[woman]

with a slow zoom into the fresh-[charred] heart of a greasy, [gristle]-flecked beef [patty]. 

stumbling through a landscape of [incinerated] jeeps, charred [corpses], and oil wells blazing in the beyond-Coppola apocalyptic night. 

to haunting shots of the men examining the charred [remains] of Iraqi soldiers and burning oil wells lighting up the night sky that prompt Swoff to observe that "the Earth is bleeding, 



sodden

My shirt was sodden with [sweat].

soggy

Polanski's insistence on filming in [rugged] Northumberland and [soggy] Wales. 

Lye