blaze away
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Definition
Verb: - To speak with great intensity, passion, or aggression. This meaning describes delivering a verbal attack or a passionate argument. - To shoot a gun rapidly and repeatedly. This meaning describes continuous, rapid gunfire. - To perform a passage of music or acting brilliantly and with great speed or energy.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- The senator blazed away at his critics during the heated debate.
- The soldiers blazed away at the enemy position until their ammunition was exhausted.
- The pianist blazed away through the complex finale, amazing the audience.
Advanced Usage
- The phrase often implies a sustained, energetic, and sometimes relentless action, whether in speech, combat, or performance.
- It can be used metaphorically in non-literal contexts to describe any intense, sustained effort.
- The writer blazed away at his keyboard to meet the deadline.
Variants and Related Words
- Blaze (verb): To burn brightly or fiercely; to shine with a strong light. Also used metaphorically for intense emotion or action (e.g., ).
- Blazing (adjective): Very hot, bright, or intense (e.g., , ).
Synonyms
- Verb (speak): Rail against, harangue, fulminate.
- Verb (shoot): Fire away, let fly, pepper (with gunfire).
- Verb (perform): Rip through, tear through, execute brilliantly.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Blaze a trail: To be a pioneer; to be the first to do something and show others how it can be done.
- The new research blazed a trail for future studies.
Related Idioms
- While "blaze away" itself functions as a phrasal verb, it is conceptually related to idioms involving fire and intensity, such as:
- Like a house on fire: Very quickly and successfully.
- They got along like a house on fire.
Verb
- speak with fire and passion
- He blazed away at his opponents in the Senate
- shoot rapidly and repeatedly
- He blazed away at the men
- perform (an acting passage) brilliantly and rapidly
- Mr. Jones blazed away in one passage after another to loud applause