conflagration
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9.6
- noun
- /ˌkɒnfləˈɡreɪʃən/
:
gran incendio
- The firefighters struggled to control the massive conflagration that was consuming the entire forest.
- spreading conflagration
- great conflagration
And so it just becomes a conflagration of fire.
- And so it just becomes a conflagration of fire.
- So, you know, for me, it's like a forest fire when you want to put the forest fire out at, when it's, you know, at ignition or when it's a conflagration, right.
- And Zeus would be there in the the world conflagration.
Examples
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The balance was restored only after two of the world's most devastating conflagrations.
Academic text (2001) -
The horror and confusion of this frightful spectacle were increased by the conflagration of the town in the streets of which deeds of still greater atrocity were going on.
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And it happened that I was present on the night of the great hotel conflagration.
Fiction book (1991) -
And the ramifications of such a Middle Eastern conflagration would be truly global.
Academic text (2006) -
The ground was covered with soft ash, as if from an enormous conflagration.
Fiction book (2002) -
Most of the buildings that escaped the conflagration were those that fronted the river.
Academic text (2006) -
What we're dealing with here is potentially a global conflagration that requires constant diligence in order to suppress.
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All Turkish officials remember the conflagration that followed a collision between two Cypriot tankers in the Black Sea.
Academic text (2009) -
Fears of a disastrous conflagration nearly came true on the night of 12 April 1886.
Academic text (2012) -
A conflagration of biblical proportions incinerates nearly everything and everyone inside what was once the city of angel's most celebrated medical facility: The vannacutt psychiatric institute for the criminally insane.
Synonyms
89
3.0
A large uncontrolled fire that quickly spreads through forests or fields
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7.6
A very large fire that is out of control
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3.2
A large fire that is out of control in wild areas like forests or grasslands
1
2.3
A very large bright fire that burns strongly
A large uncontrolled fire in a forest that destroys trees
Antonyms
Compounds
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
conflagration = conflagrate (opaque) = con + flagr + ation
The derivation from the verb 'conflagrate' to the noun 'conflagration' is a regular nominalization with the suffix '-ation'.
Etymology
Conflagration comes from the Latin parts con- 'together' and flagrare 'to burn', so it originally meant 'burning together'. That's why a conflagration today means a very large, out-of-control fire that destroys a lot at once.