Usually means: Uncontrolled fire spreading through vegetation.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word wildfire:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. wildfire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wildfire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wildfire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wildfire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wildfire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wildfire, wildfire: Wordnik
  7. wildfire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wildfire: Wiktionary
  9. wildfire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wildfire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wildfire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wildfire: Dictionary.com
  13. wildfire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wildfire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Wildfire (If It Was True), Wildfire (Carol Vance Martin), Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphey song), Wildfire (Rachel Platten album), Wildfire (Silver Dollar City), Wildfire (TV series), Wildfire (The Walking Dead), Wildfire (comics), Wildfire (disambiguation), Wildfire (motor company), Wildfire (song), Wildfire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wildfire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wildfire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wildfire: Rhymezone
  19. Wildfire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wildfire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wildfire: Free Dictionary
  22. wildfire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wildfire: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Wildfire: World Wide Words

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. wildfire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wildfire: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WILDFIRE: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A rapidly spreading fire, especially one occurring in a wildland area.
noun:  (historical) A Greek fire.
noun:  (dermatology) A spreading disease of the skin, particularly erysipelas.
noun:  (figuratively) Something that acts or spreads quickly and uncontrollably.

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