Synonyms for flame
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English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flame

   To burn is to subject to the action of fire, or of intense heat so as to effect either partial change or complete combustion; as, to burn wood in the fire; to burn one's hand on a hot stove; the sun burns the face. One brands with a hot iron, but cauterizes with some corrosive substance, as silver nitrate. Cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat. To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use. To kindle is to set on fire, as if with a candle; ignite is the more learned and scientific word for the same thing, extending even to the heating of metals to a state of incandescence without burning. To scorch and to singe are superficial, and to char usually so. Both kindle and burn have an extensive figurative use; as, to kindle strife; to burn with wrath, love, devotion, curiosity. Compare LIGHT.

   Synonyms:
   blaze, brand, burn, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, set on fire, singe

   Antonyms:
   cool, extinguish, put out, smother, stifle, subdue

   Preposition:
   To burn in the fire, burn with fire; burn to the ground, burn to ashes; burn through the skin, or the roof; burn into the soil, etc.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fire, flame, flamingverb

   the process of combustion of inflammable materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke

   "fire was one of our ancestors' first discoveries"

   Synonyms:
   fire, fervidness, fervour, ardor, attack, blast, flaming, flak, fervor, firing, fervency, flack, ardour

2. flare, flameverb

   shine with a sudden light

   "The night sky flared with the massive bombardment"

   Synonyms:
   flame up, irrupt, erupt, flare up, burn up, flare, blaze up, break open, burst out, flare out

3. flameverb

   be in flames or aflame

   "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"

   Synonyms:
   flare

4. flameverb

   criticize harshly, usually via an electronic medium

   "the person who posted an inflammatory message got flamed"

   Synonyms:
   flare

Matched Categories

1. • Burn
   • Chastise
   • Shine

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flamenoun

   Synonyms:
   blaze, burning vapor

2. flamenoun

   Synonyms:
   fire

3. flamenoun

   Synonyms:
   ardor, fervor, fervency, warmth, enthusiasm

4. flamenoun

   Synonyms:
   [Colloquial.] love, sweetheart

5. flameverb

   Synonyms:
   blaze

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. flamenoun

   Synonyms:
   blaze, fire, love, sweetheart

   Associated words:
   lambent, flamineous, flammiferous, flammivomous, flambage

2. flameverb

   Synonyms:
   blaze

   Antonyms:
   smolder

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "flame":

   torch, flames, fire, shula, shola, retardant, romance, inflammation, blaze, llamas

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1. List of known nicknames for "Flame":

   Alicia Vickers, Marcus T.W. Gray

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1. Infanta Rodriguez:

   The noise made it seem like a plane was crashing down on us, but when you looked it was more like a big ball of flame - something red, red, red as if the whole country had caught fire.

2. Gabriel Seiden:

   When this flame grows.

3. Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Ninth, Chapter 2:

   She had fortunately always her appetite for news. The pure flame of the disinterested burned in her cave of treasures as a lamp in a Byzantine vault.

4. Miguel de Cervantes:

   'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it.

5. Thomas Bach:

   Sport is not the most important thing right now, preserving human life is, this Olympic flame will be the light at the end of this tunnel.