Synonyms of the word

flame

• n. The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat.
• n. A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.
• n. (Internet) Intentionally insulting criticism or remark meant to incite anger.
• n. A brilliant reddish orange-gold fiery colour.
• n. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument…
• n. Burning zeal, passion, imagination, excitement, or anger.
• v. To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze.
• v. To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.
• v. (Internet, transitive, intransitive) To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody).
• adj. Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

burn

• n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
• n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
• n. The act of burning something.
• n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
• n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
• n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
• n. (Britain, chiefly prison slang) tobacco.
• n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
• n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
• v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
• v. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
• v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
• v. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
• v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
• v. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect…
• v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat;…
• v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
• v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
• v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To waste (time).
• v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
• v. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
• v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare…
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A stream.

burning

• v. present participle of burn.
• adj. So hot as to seem to burn (something).
• adj. Feeling very hot.
• adj. Feeling great passion.
• adj. Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
• n. The act by which something burns or is burned.
• n. A fire.

castigate

• v. To punish severely; to criticize severely; to reprimand severely.
• v. To revise or make corrections to a publication.

chasten

• v. To punish (in order to bring about improvement in behavior, attitude, etc.); to restrain, moderate.
• v. To make chaste; to purify.
• v. To punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement; to discipline.
• v. To render humble or restrained.

chastise

• v. To punish or scold someone.

combust

• v. To burn; to catch fire.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
• adj. (obsolete) Burnt.
• adj. (astrology) In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes…

combustion

• n. (chemistry) The act or process of burning.
• n. A process where two chemicals are combined to produce heat.
• n. A process wherein a fuel is combined with oxygen, usually at high temperature, releasing heat.
• n. (figuratively) Violent agitation, tumult.

correct

• adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
• adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
• v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
• v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

fire

• n. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon…
• n. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained…
• n. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
• n. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered a one of…
• n. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
• n. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
• n. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun.
• n. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.
• n. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
• n. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
• n. (countable) A button (on a joypad, joystick or similar device) usually used to make a video game character…
• v. (transitive) To set (something) on fire.
• v. (transitive) To heat without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
• v. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
• v. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct…
• v. (transitive) To shoot (a device that launches a projectile or a pulse or stream of something).
• v. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, a cannon or a similar weapon.
• v. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
• v. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
• v. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
• v. (intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
• v. To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
• v. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
• v. To feed or serve the fire of.
• v. To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
• v. (farriery) To cauterize.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• interj. A cry of distress indicating that something is on fire.
• interj. A signal to shoot.

flaming

• adj. On fire with visible flames.
• adj. (colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male.
• adj. (Britain, colloquial) Damned, bloody.
• v. present participle of flame.
• n. Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.
• n. (Internet slang) Vitriolic criticism.

flare

• n. A source of brightly burning light or intense heat used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate…
• n. A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
• n. (aviation) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
• n. (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
• n. A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light or intense heat without an explosion. A colored…
• n. (photography) lens flare.
• n. (engineering) widening at the end (edge) of a tube or a hollow structural section (rectangular hollow…
• v. (intransitive) To blaze brightly.
• v. (intransitive) To burn unsteadily.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To open outward in shape.
• v. (transitive) To cause to burn.
• v. To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
• v. To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
• v. (obsolete) To be exposed to too much light.

objurgate

• v. (transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.

shine

• v. (intransitive) To emit light.
• v. (intransitive) To reflect light.
• v. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
• v. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
• v. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
• v. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
• v. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
• v. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
• v. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
• n. Brightness from a source of light.
• n. Brightness from reflected light.
• n. Excellence in quality or appearance.
• n. Shoeshine.
• n. Sunshine.
• n. (slang) Moonshine.
• n. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
• n. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
• n. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
• v. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.