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brush·fire

also brush fire  (brŭsh′fīr′)
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.
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brush fire

n
1. a fire in bushes and scrub
2. (Sociology) a minor local war
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brush′ fire`


n.
a fire in an area of bushes, shrubs, or brush, as distinct from a forest fire.
[1770–80, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
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"
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Translations

brush fire

n
(= fire) → Buschfeuer nt
(= crisis) → begrenzter or lokaler Konflikt
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