I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a blaze of glory (= when someone or something is praised a lot )
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The film opened in a blaze of glory with rave reviews from critics.
a blaze of publicity (= a lot of publicity )
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His marriage broke up in a blaze of publicity.
a blazing/flaming row (= a very angry row )
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She had a blazing row with Eddie and stormed out of the house.
a fire rages/blazes (= it burns strongly for a long time over a large area )
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Fires were raging in the forest near Magleby.
bright/brilliant/blazing/dazzling sunshine
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We stepped out of the plane into the bright sunshine of Corfu.
burning/blazing/smoking wreckage
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He managed to crawl away from the burning wreckage.
eyes blazing with fury
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Jo stepped forward, her eyes blazing with fury .
raging/blazing inferno
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Within minutes, the house had become a raging inferno.
sb’s eyes are burning/smouldering/blazing with hate literary
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Then he noticed the dark eyes, smouldering with hate.
tackle a blaze/fire (= try to stop it )
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Fire crews tackling the blaze were hampered by exploding gas canisters.
the blazing/burning sun
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Tourists trudge around in the blazing sun.
the sun beats down/blazes down (= shines with a lot of light and heat )
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The sun beats down on us as we work.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
control
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It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the former Langham Hotel.
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A second alarm was called at 10: 46, with firefighters controlling the blaze some 30 minutes later.
fight
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People reported seeing smoke from over 70 miles away and helicopters were used to help fight the blaze .
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About 240 firefighters using helicopters, planes and ground equipment were fighting the blaze .
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Two appliances from the the town's fire station raced to the scene to fight the blaze .
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Nearly 80 firefighters, along with water-dropping helicopters, fought the blaze for three hours Sunday.
start
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Firemen believe a new electrical appliance may have started the blaze .
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Officials are still looking for whoever started the blaze .
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Brophy said the man was not considered a suspect, but investigators hope he can shed light on what started the blaze .
tackle
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Three appliances and a hydraulic platform tackled the blaze .
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About 15 firefighters tackled the blaze in a silo at I'Anson's mill in Masham in the Dales.
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Arson fear: Fire crews tackled the second blaze in three days in an empty house in Trent Street, Middlesbrough yesterday.
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Firefighters spent three hours tackling the blaze , which spread through the roof and into an adjoining property in Pensby Road.
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Later firemen tackling the blaze were in danger from exploding canisters of acetylene and propane.
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House arson: Fire crews spent more than two hours tackling a severe blaze in an empty Middlesbrough house yesterday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cheerful blaze in the fireplace
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Firefighters struggled to control the blaze .
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Six fire fighters were injured battling the blaze .
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The church was completely destroyed in the blaze .
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The rabbit stopped, caught in the blaze of the car's headlights.
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House fire: Firefighters were called to a house blaze in Sedgefield in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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It looked like a blaze photographed with a filter that transformed everything into shades of the same colour.
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Just like Windsor, the blaze happened during restoration work.
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Officials are still looking for whoever started the blaze .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fire
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I thought of fire blazing in the wards of Glengall.
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Despite sweltering in the luxury of a fire blazing full on, she received a series of credits on her budget account.
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A huge fire blazed outside on which we piled everything that could not be salvaged.
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By the time Edward returned with a tray of beer-cans the fire was blazing with famished enthusiasm.
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Ten minutes later, the fire is blazing and the room is warm.
gun
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She would have erupted from concealment, all guns blazing , and made the ultimate scene.
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More shots rang out, and presidential security guards raced on to the stage from the wings, guns drawn, some blazing .
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United came out all guns blazing ... Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half.
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Naomi has moved in, with all guns blazing .
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The guns were blazing away at them but they just kept coming.
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Did he bank and dive, his finger on the button, his guns blazing from the wings?
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But Presley's finest were now coming into their own with big guns blazing .
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Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing .
sun
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But in a moment, the sun was blazing , the sky blue as cornflowers.
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The sun blazed down on all of us: friends, family, servants and a cluster of barefoot neighborhood kids.
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Well the sun is blazing down from the clear blue heavens.
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The rainbow vanished, the sky turned blue-gray, and the sun blazed .
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It rained on days when they needed sun and it blazed when Nichols wanted a rain sequence.
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The sun was also blazing on to this cliff, and I was feeling distinctly battered.
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The sun was blazing hot, the skin of my bare arm beginning to burn.
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Soon the sun would blaze white and clear across the grey sea and splash it into colour.
trail
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New viral trails were blazed as a result of all these phenomena.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
with all guns blazing
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Ewood Park is a lucky ground for them and in the first half they went for Blackburn with all guns blazing.
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Kasparov has won, but Karpov went down with all guns blazing to an honourable defeat.
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Naomi has moved in, with all guns blazing.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A fire was blazing in the fireplace.
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Lights blazed in every room in the house.
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The midday sun blazed down on us.
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The windows of the cathedral were blazing with coloured light.
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It rained on days when they needed sun and it blazed when Nichols wanted a rain sequence.
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Now it was blazing steadily, promising an out-of-control inferno, unless she came to her senses and stopped it.
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Perhaps it was inevitable that an attraction should have blazed between them from the first.
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Yet it was precisely conservatives such as the Mormons who had blazed paths to the voting booths fifty years before.