1. A strong fire that burns brightly
   "the blaze spread rapidly";
   - blazing
    
2. A light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
   "a blaze of sunlight";
   - glare, brilliance
    
3. A light-coloured marking
   "they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes"; "the horse had a blaze between its eyes"
    
4. [informal] A cause of difficulty and suffering
   "go to blazes";
   - hell [informal]
    
5. [informal] Noisy and unrestrained mischief
   "raising blazes";
   - hell [informal]

1. Burn brightly and intensely
   "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"
    
2. Shine brightly and intensively
   "Meteors blazed across the atmosphere"
    
3. Move rapidly and as if blazing
   "The spaceship blazed out into space";
   - blaze out
    
4. Shoot rapidly and repeatedly
   "He blazed away at the men";
   - blaze away
    
5. Indicate by marking trees with blazes
   "blaze a trail"

Derived forms: blazed, blazes, blazing

See also: flare

Type of: beam, blast, brightness, burn, combust, depart, devilment, devilry, deviltry [archaic], fire, flame, flaming, mark, marking, mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, part, roguery, set forth, set off, set out, shenanigan, shine, shoot, start, start out, take off, trouble

Encyclopedia: Blaze, Missouri