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• a hot glowing body of ignited gas that is generated by something on fire.

• "the car was engulfed in flames"

Similar: fire, blaze, conflagration, inferno, holocaust, firestorm,

• a vitriolic or abusive message posted on the internet or sent by email, typically in quick response to another message.

• "send out an unsolicited email and you could possibly receive thousands of flames"

• burn and give off flames.

• "a great fire flamed in an open fireplace"

Similar: burn, blaze, be ablaze, be alight, be on fire, be in flames, be aflame, burst into flame, catch fire,

• direct a vitriolic or abusive message at (someone) on the internet or via email.

• "your opinions and mine are probably different, but please don't flame me"

Origin: Middle English: from Old French flame (noun), flamer (verb), from Latin flamma ‘a flame’.

• suddenly begin to burn fiercely.
"the car crashed into a tree and burst into flames"

• be destroyed by fire.
"last night two factories went up in flames"

• a former lover.

• fail badly or conspicuously.
"he and the rest of the team flamed out in the last three minutes"