fire




the event of something burning (often destructive)

"they lost everything in the fire"

Type of:
  • happening; occurrence; occurrent; natural event

Types:
  • backfire
  • bonfire; balefire
  • brush fire
  • campfire
  • conflagration; inferno
  • forest fire
  • grassfire; prairie fire
  • smoulder; smolder
  • smudge


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