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Verb
blazing
- present participle and gerund of blaze
Adjective
blazing (not comparable)
- (informal) Very fast.
- (slang, of a person) Sexually attractive.
The actress, with her perfectly-curved body, was simply blazing in her new movie!
- Of tremendous intensity, heat (thermal energy) or fervor; white-hot.
1859, Punch, Or, The London Charivari, Volumes 36-37, Published for the Proprietors, at the Office, 13, page 236:Blazing scarlet is the best; rifle-green the next best.
- (informal) Exceedingly angry.
The divorced couple had a blazing row.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 31, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 142:Ahab seemed a pyramid, and I, like a blazing fool, kept kicking at it.
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Noun
blazing (plural blazings)
- The act of something that blazes or burns.
- the blazings of many firesBeing a fat alpha indeed. (AKA) leader of the pack, or on top