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brush fire

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brush·fire also brush fire  (brshfr)
n.
1. A fire in low-growing, scrubby trees and brush.
2. A relatively minor crisis.
adj.
Minor enough to involve only small-scale mobilization of counteracting resources: brushfire wars.

brush fire
n
1. a fire in bushes and scrub
2. (Sociology) a minor local war
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.brush fire - an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushesbrush fire - an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes
fire - the event of something burning (often destructive); "they lost everything in the fire"
Translations
brush fire
n
(= fire)Buschfeuer nt
(= crisis)begrenzter or lokaler Konflikt


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The five agencies that dispatched 18 pieces of equipment, including fire trucks and bulldozers, on the scene added up to one of the largest brush fires in the county this year and Goshen's first significant brush fire of the summer, Wolting said.
: Old Bay Road at Wattaquadock Hill Road, brush fire.
A separate brush fire then flared on Monday in the foothills to the west and quickly took over around 1,500 acres.
 
 
 
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