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1. Burning intensely; blazing.
2. Burning together in a common flame.

1. To cause to start burning.
2. To start to burn or to burst into flames.

1. A large fire that causes a great deal of damage.
2. A very intense and uncontrolled fire.
3. A large and destructive fire; a general burning.
4. A large and violent event; such as, a war involving many people.
5. Something like a conflagration: a conflict; a war.

1. Producing conflagration.
2. Given to burning up.

Someone who sets something on fire.

Inflammatory.

The state or quality of being deflagrable.

1. Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion; such as, niter; hence, slightly explosive.
2. Liable to snap and crackle when heated; such as, salt.

1. To burn violently, or to make something burn violently.
2. To burn or cause to burn with great heat and intense light.
3. To cause to burn with sudden and sparkling combustion, as by the action of intense heat.

To burn or to vaporize suddenly; such as, to deflagrate refractory metals in the oxyhydrogen flame.

1. Combustion that propagates through a gas or along the surface of an explosive at a rapid rate driven by the transfer of heat.
2. A process of subsonic combustion that usually propagates through thermal conductivity (when hot burning material heats the next layer of cold material and ignites it).
3. The kindling, or burning off in a crucible, a mixture of salt, or some mineral substance, with a gradual sparkling combustion of any substance without a violent explosion.

A term particular applied to combustion produced by nitre or niter (a colorless or white crystalline compound used in gunpowders, pyrotechnics, fertilizers, and as a preservative for foods; especially, as a curing salt for ham, sausages, etc.

1. A galvanic instrument for producing combustion, particularly the combustion of metallic substances.
2. A form of the voltaic battery having large plates, used for producing rapid and powerful combustion.

1. Very obvious and contrary to standards of conduct or morality.
2. Shocking because of being so obvious.
3. A burning; great heat; inflammation.
4. The condition or quality of being flagrant; atrocity; heiniousness; enormity; excess.

1. Shockingly noticeable or evident; obvious; glaring: "He made a flagrant error in his presentation."
2. Notorious; scandalous: "It was a flagrant crime committed by a flagrant offender."
3. Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible.
4. Archaic: blazing, burning, or glowing.