Usually means: Large, destructive, and uncontrolled fire.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. conflagration: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. conflagration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. conflagration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. conflagration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. conflagration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Conflagration, conflagration: Wordnik
  7. conflagration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. conflagration: Wiktionary
  9. conflagration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. conflagration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. conflagration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Conflagration, conflagration: Dictionary.com
  13. conflagration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Conflagration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Conflagration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. conflagration: Rhymezone
  17. Conflagration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. conflagration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. conflagration: Free Dictionary
  20. conflagration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. conflagration: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. conflagration: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conflagration: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. conflagration: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A large fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A large-scale conflict.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) A situation of great passion or emotion.

Similar:
inferno, gigafire, furor, overburn, contagion, congestion, flood, pandemonium, towering inferno, deluge, more...

Opposite:
incendiarism, firefighting, fire prevention

Types:
brush fire, forest fire, grass fire, bush fire, wildfire, urban fire, wildland fire, more...

Phrases:
criminal conflagration, opposite of conflagration, more...

Adjectives:
general, great, european, final, universal, terrible, vast, major, mighty, dreadful, nuclear

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Similar:
inferno, gigafire, furor, overburn, contagion, congestion, flood, pandemonium, towering inferno, deluge, more...

Opposite:
incendiarism, firefighting, fire prevention

Types:
brush fire, forest fire, grass fire, bush fire, wildfire, urban fire, wildland fire, more...

Phrases:
criminal conflagration, opposite of conflagration, more...

Adjectives:
general, great, european, final, universal, terrible, vast, major, mighty, dreadful, nuclear

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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