About The Word Wildfire
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Wildfire
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What's The Definition Of Wildfire?
[n] a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
Synonyms | Synonyms for Wildfire: Related Terms | Find terms related to Wildfire: See Also | conflagration | inferno Wildfire In Webster's Dictionary \Wild"fire\, n.
1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is
very hard to quench; Greek fire.
Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and
hard to quench. --Bacon.
2. (Med.)
(a) An old name for erysipelas.
(b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the
skin.
3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.]
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