亚洲网紅露点

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wildfire

[ wahyld-fahyuhr ]

noun

  1. any large fire in brush, forests, or open spaces that spreads rapidly and is hard to extinguish.
  2. a highly flammable composition, such as Greek fire, difficult to extinguish when ignited, formerly used in warfare.
  3. sheet lightning, unaccompanied by thunder.
  4. the ignis fatuus or a similar light.
  5. Plant Pathology. a disease of tobacco and soybeans, characterized by brown, necrotic spots, each surrounded by a yellow band, on the leaves and caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas tabaci.
  6. Pathology Obsolete. erysipelas or some similar disease.


wildfire

/ 藞飞补瑟濒诲藢蹿补瑟蓹 /

noun

  1. a highly flammable material, such as Greek fire, formerly used in warfare
    1. a raging and uncontrollable fire
    2. anything that is disseminated quickly (esp in the phrase spread like wildfire )
  2. lightning without audible thunder
  3. another name for will-o'-the-wisp
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of wildfire1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English wildefire, Old English 飞颈濒诲蹿测虅谤; equivalent to wild + fire
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Idioms and Phrases

see spread like wildfire .
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Example Sentences

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But a decade of effort was wiped out in days when a wildfire ripped across the valley earlier this month.

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Donald Trump鈥檚 fixation on well-ordered forests as an antidote to wildfires seems like a weird obsession, but it is rooted in the same high-modernist thought.

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Lack of rainfall however, will again raise concerns about potential wildfires.

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"My number one worry is what is going to happen in the summer," said Prof Rein, when "there are fewer wildfires but they are bigger and they can actually be seriously catastrophic".

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Five people were arrested for allegedly submitting false claims that their properties were damaged in the January Los Angeles wildfires, the Justice Department announced Friday.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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