conflagration 



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–noun 
a destructive fire, usually an extensive one. 

Related forms:
conflagrative, adjective 

Synonyms:
See flame.

Flame, blaze, conflagration refer to the light and heat given off by combustion

Flame is the common word, referring to a combustion of any size: the light of a match flame. 

Blaze usually denotes a quick, hot, bright, and comparatively large flame: The fire burst into a blaze. 

Conflagration refers to destructive flames which spread over a considerable area: A conflagration destroyed Chicago. 


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Nevertheless, Fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn. Like his best movies, it's also a statement. Bean has built a [bonfire] of contradictions and the ensuing conflagration illuminates a bit of the world. 


scorch
superficial or slight burning
change of color or injury to the texture
to scorch a [dress] while [ironing]
singe
superficial or slight burning
that takes off ends or projections
to singe [hair] 
singe the [pinfeathers] from a [chicken]
Isaach De Bankolé in the lead are [hot] enough to singe so many art school pencil ’staches.
charcoal
char
The fire charred the [paper].  
The flame charred the [steak].  
char[s], a char[woman]
with a slow zoom into the fresh-[charred] heart of a greasy, [gristle]-flecked beef [patty]. 
stumbling through a landscape of [incinerated] jeeps, charred [corpses], and oil wells blazing in the beyond-Coppola apocalyptic night. 
to haunting shots of the men examining the charred [remains] of Iraqi soldiers and burning oil wells lighting up the night sky that prompt Swoff to observe that "the Earth is bleeding, 

sodden
My shirt was sodden with [sweat].
soggy
Polanski's insistence on filming in [rugged] Northumberland and [soggy] Wales. 
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