blazes
Burns with intensity
Blazes appears mainly in emphatic expressions of surprise, frustration, or intensity: What the blazes is going on? , Run like blazes, Hot as blazes.
The word serves as a mild euphemism for hell in these constructions.
On its own, blazes is the plural of blaze—large flames or intense fires: The firefighters battled multiple blazes across the county.
Visible burning combustion
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
- conflagrationLarge destructive blaze
- wildfireUncontrolled vegetation blaze
- firestormSelf-perpetuating intense blaze
bonfire · embers · burning · scorched · charred · smoke · ash · combustion
Intensely hot or passionate
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
- roaringMaking prolonged loud noise
raging · furious · fierce · violent · incandescent · white-hot · glowing · brilliant
Underworld of suffering
- damnationEternal punishment decree
- heckMild frustrated exclamation
- tarnationMild rural curse
- dickensMild oath substitute
exclamation · oath · minced · curse · expletive · interjection
Pens with porous tips
- notchesV-shaped incisions
- hatchetSmall one-handed chopper
- treesWoody plants with trunks
- pathRoute for traveling
navigation · hiking · waypoints · signposts · wilderness · trailhead · backcountry · orienteering
flames
Visible burning combustion
- infernoDevastating, uncontrollable blaze
- conflagrationLarge destructive blaze
- wildfireUncontrolled vegetation blaze
firestorm · bonfire · embers · burning · scorched · charred · smoke · ash · combustion · pyre
fiery
Intensely hot or passionate
- searingBrowning with intense heat
- scorchingExtremely hot, burning
- blisteringExtremely intense or severe
roaring · raging · furious · fierce · violent · incandescent · white-hot · glowing · brilliant · dazzling
hell
Underworld of suffering
dickens · exclamation · oath · minced · curse · expletive · interjection
markers
Pens with porous tips
path · navigation · hiking · waypoints · signposts · wilderness · trailhead · backcountry · orienteering · marked
fury
Intense violent anger
temper · eruption · explosion · tirade · storm · flare-up · seething · fuming · livid · incensed
- hikingtrail, hike, hiker, trails, day hikes
- hiking termshiking trails, trailhead, switchback, summit, switchbacks
- hiking trailpath, dirt, mud, rocks, roots
- trailsnature trail, trail, hiking paths, hiking trail, forest trail
- Backpackingbackpack, trail, backpacking, pack, sleeping pad
- minced oathsdarn, heck, gosh, shoot, dang
blazesextinguishes
Causes to stop burning
dies out · goes out · fizzles · peters out · burns out
- blazes of glorySpectacular, memorable final acts
- guns blazingAttacking with total aggression
- blazing sunIntensely hot daylight
- blaze a trailCreate a new route
- blazing a trail
- blue blazerDark jacket, often brass-buttoned
blaze, blazing, ablaze, blazer, blazed, blazers, blaze a trail, blaze up