I.
noun
1 hot bright stream of fire
ADJECTIVE
▪ hot
▪ small
▪ bright
▪ dancing , flickering , leaping
▪ naked ( BrE ), open ( AmE )
▪
pork cooked over an open ~
▪
Never smoke near a naked ~.
▪ candle , gas
▪ Olympic
… OF FLAME
▪ ball , sheet , tongue
▪
The plane crashed in a ball of ~s.
▪
Sheets of ~ shot into the air.
VERB + FLAME
▪ ignite , light , spark ( often figurative )
▪
His childhood interest in the game had ignited a ~ of passion for football.
▪ rekindle ( often figurative )
▪
They tried to rekindle the ~s of romance.
▪ blow out , extinguish , snuff , snuff out
▪ feel ( often figurative )
▪
She felt a ~ of anger flicker and grow.
FLAME + VERB
▪ burn , crackle
▪
The ~ burned brightly.
▪ grow
▪ die , go out
▪
The candle ~ flickered and went out.
▪ leap , rise , shoot
▪
Flames leaped from the burning house.
▪
Flames shot high into the air.
▪ lick (sth)
▪
Orange ~s were already licking around the foot of the stairs.
▪ dance , flicker
▪
Flames danced in the gas lantern.
PHRASES
▪ the crackle of ~s
2 flames fire
ADJECTIVE
▪ blazing , burning , crackling , roaring
▪ intense
VERB + FLAMES
▪ be engulfed in
▪ go up in
▪
All the historical records have gone up in ~s (= have been destroyed by fire) .
▪ burst into , erupt in , explode in , explode into
▪
The helicopter burst into ~s.
▪ fuel ( often figurative )
▪
Ethnic tensions helped fuel the ~s of civil war.
▪
Oxygen tanks helped fuel the ~s.
▪ fan , feed , stoke
▪
Winds fanned the ~s.
▪ fight
▪
He fought the ~s for two hours.
▪ control
▪
Firefighters have been trying to control the ~s.
▪ douse , extinguish , put out , quench , smother
▪
Men came with buckets of water and began to douse the ~s.
▪ be beaten back by
▪
They tried to get into to the house but were beaten back by the ~s.
FLAMES + VERB
▪ roar
▪ die down
▪ spread , sweep through sth
▪
They watched the ~s sweep through the old wooden barn.
▪ burst from sth , erupt from sth
▪ consume sth , engulf sth
▪
The ~s quickly spread and engulfed their home.
▪ light sth , light sth up
▪
The ~s lit up the skyline.
PREPOSITION
▪ in ~s
▪
A large part of the building was in ~s.
▪
The aircraft was shot down in ~s.
II.
verb
Flame is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ cheek , ↑ face