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2. Noun. (pluralonly) (euphemistic) hell ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of blaze) ¹

4. Adverb. hellishly, extremely ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blazes

1. blaze [v] - See also: blaze

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blazes

Literary usage of Blazes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ballads of Old New York by Arthur Guiterman (1920)
"THE HOUSE OF blazes (A Modern Legend of Spuyten Duyvil) Where Spuyten ... Upon a northward promontory The "House of blazes" stands in pride— A tavern famed ..."

2. The Tea-table Miscellany: A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English by Allan Ramsey (1871)
"... See yonder bright blazes a ftar ; Where am I ! — behold the Empyreum, With flaming light ... beauty blazes heavenly bright, * » The mufe can no more ..."

3. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... blazes, in sundry colloquial comparisons implying vehemently, extremely, in a very high degree, as " drunk as blazes," is said to have ..."

4. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1858)
"whom the erratic course of a transcendent genius,— of a comet that blazes across the zenith once in a century, would be perplexing and incomprehensible. ..."

5. Ballads of Old New York by Arthur Guiterman (1920)
"THE HOUSE OF blazes (A Modern Legend of Spuyten Duyvil) Where Spuyten ... Upon a northward promontory The "House of blazes" stands in pride— A tavern famed ..."

6. The Tea-table Miscellany: A Collection of Choice Songs, Scots and English by Allan Ramsey (1871)
"... See yonder bright blazes a ftar ; Where am I ! — behold the Empyreum, With flaming light ... beauty blazes heavenly bright, * » The mufe can no more ..."

7. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... blazes, in sundry colloquial comparisons implying vehemently, extremely, in a very high degree, as " drunk as blazes," is said to have ..."

8. The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1858)
"whom the erratic course of a transcendent genius,— of a comet that blazes across the zenith once in a century, would be perplexing and incomprehensible. ..."

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