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blaze away

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Verb1.blaze away - perform (an acting passage) brilliantly and rapidly; "Mr. Jones blazed away in one passage after another to loud applause"
performing arts - arts or skills that require public performance
perform, do, execute - carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
2.blaze away - shoot rapidly and repeatedly; "He blazed away at the men"
blaze
shoot, blast - fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away"
3.blaze away - speak with fire and passion; "He blazed away at his opponents in the Senate"
address, speak - give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees"
Translations
? blaze away
vi
(soldiers, guns) → drauflosfeuern (→ at auf +acc)
(fire etc) → lodern


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Now, Mrs Quilp,' he said; 'I feel in a smoking humour, and shall probably blaze away all night.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
Grotesque enough, but I rather wish they had let him go the whole hog and blaze away.
The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
Come to us and find us all a-dying, and set a light to us all where we lie and let us all blaze away with the house into a heap of cinders sooner than move a corpse of us there
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
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