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flaming

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flam·ing  (flmng)
adj.
1. On fire; ablaze.
2. Resembling a flame in brilliance, color, or form: flaming autumn leaves.
3. Intense; ardent: flaming passions.
4. Informal Used as an intensive: a flaming liberal.

flaming·ly adv.

flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ]
adj
1. burning with or emitting flames
2. glowing brightly; brilliant
3. intense or ardent; vehement; passionate a flaming temper
4. Informal (intensifier) you flaming idiot
5. an obsolete word for flagrant
flamingly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.flamingflaming - the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke; "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"
blaze, blazing - a strong flame that burns brightly; "the blaze spread rapidly"
combustion, burning - a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light
flare - a sudden burst of flame
ignition - the process of initiating combustion or catching fire
Adj.1.flaming - informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot"
unmitigated - not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier; "unmitigated suffering"; "an unmitigated horror"; "an unmitigated lie"
2.flaming - very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions"
hot - extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm; "a hot temper"; "a hot topic"; "a hot new book"; "a hot love affair"; "a hot argument"

flaming
adjective
1. burning, blazing, fiery, ignited, red, brilliant, raging, glowing, red-hot, ablaze, in flames, afire A group followed carrying flaming torches.
2. bright, brilliant, glowing, blazing, dazzling, vivid He stroked back the mass of flaming red hair from her face.
3. intense, angry, raging, impassioned, hot, aroused, vivid, frenzied, ardent, scintillating, vehement She had a flaming row with her lover.
4. damned, bloody (slang), bleeding (slang), blooming (informal), freaking (slang, chiefly U.S.), ruddy (informal), effing (slang) I was flaming mad about what had happened.
Translations
flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ] ADJ
1. [torch] → llameante; [vehicle] → en llamas
2. [red, orange] → encendido
she had flaming red hairtenía el pelo de un rojo encendido
3. (Brit) (= furious) we had a flaming rowtuvimos una acalorada discusión
flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ]
adj
(= blazing) → ardent(e)
(= bright) [red, orange] → flamboyant(e)
He has flaming red hair → Il a les cheveux d'un roux flamboyant.
[row] → violent(e); [temper] → sale(e)
(mainly British) (= confounded) → satané(e) > before n
adv (= confoundedly) → tellement
It's so flaming expensive → C'est tellement cher.
flaming
adj
brennend, lodernd; (fig) colourleuchtend; ragehell; passionglühend; he has flaming red hairer hat feuerrotes Haar; she was absolutely flaming (Brit inf: = angry) → sie kochte (vor Wut) (inf); to have a flaming row (with somebody)sich (mit jdm) streiten, dass die Fetzen fliegen (inf)
(Brit inf: = bloody) → verdammt (inf), → Scheiß- (inf); it’s a flaming nuisanceMensch, das ist vielleicht ein Mist (inf); it’s a flaming waste of timedas ist eine verdammte Zeitverschwendung (inf); it was there all the flaming timeMensch or Scheiße, das war die ganze Zeit da (inf); who does he flaming well think he is?verdammt noch mal, für wen hält der sich eigentlich? (inf)
flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ] adj
a. (red, orange) → acceso/a
b. (Brit) (fam) (furious) → furibondo/a, furioso/a
c. (Brit) (fam) (damn) → maledetto/a

flaming [ˈfleɪmɪŋ] adj
a. (red, orange) → acceso/a
b. (Brit) (fam) (furious) → furibondo/a, furioso/a
c. (Brit) (fam) (damn) → maledetto/a


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His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony--the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings--to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.
It had occurred towards midnight of the twelfth; and the spectroscope, to which he had at once resorted, indicated a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, moving with an enormous velocity towards this earth.
--Running fires will I one day make of them, and heralds with flaming tongues:--
 
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