Conflagration

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(thing) by humbabba (2.9 wk) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Thu Aug 17 2000 at 13:55:24
A massive fire of the Doomsday variety. The kind that wrecks whole navies in drydock, scatters the troops, and creates streams of refugees heading for the highlands.
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Sat Oct 19 2002 at 2:02:39

Con`fla*gra"tion (?), n. [L. conflagratio: cf. F. conflagration.]

A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.

Till one wide conflagration swallows all.
Pope.

 

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