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conflagration

Noun

Meaning

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer. Cassandra Clare

No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes. Elie Wiesel

The certainty of Heroes being sent us; our faculty, our necessity, to reverence Heroes when sent: it shines like a polestar through smoke-clouds, dust-clouds, and all manner of down-rushing and conflagration. Thomas Carlyle

In the distance huge trees were still blazing, around us was a waste of ashes and of half-consumed boughs, and the falling rain seemed only to quicken the dying conflagration. Georges Clemenceau

From a simple spark there will often be produced a great conflagration. Latin Proverb

After the conflagration ruins remain. Turkish Proverb

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