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fireblast en · NOUN

Etymology

From fire + blast.

Meanings

  1. A fiery explosion.
  2. A blight affecting plants, giving them a scorched appearance (as if burnt by fire).
    • Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts. 1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary, Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96:

Forms

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fireblasts Number=Plur lexicographic
fire blast alternative lexicographic

Relateds

firebolt · fireburst