blaze

Noun

• a light-colored marking
  • they chipped off bark to mark the trail with blazes
    
  • the horse had a blaze between its eyes
    

• a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
  • a glare of sunlight
    

• noisy and unrestrained mischief
  • raising blazes
    

• a cause of difficulty and suffering
  • war is hell
    
  • go to blazes
    

• a strong flame that burns brightly
  • the blaze spread rapidly
    

Verb

• indicate by marking trees with blazes
  • blaze a trail
    

• move rapidly and as if blazing
  • The spaceship blazed out into space
    

• burn brightly and intensely
  • The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze
    

• shoot rapidly and repeatedly
  • He blazed away at the men
    

• shine brightly and intensively
  • Meteors blazed across the atmosphere
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  glare , brilliance , hell , blazing , blaze out , blaze away