Word:
Conflagration
Status:
Noun
Meaning:
Describes a very large and disastrous fire or the situation of war and conflict.
Sentences:
1) The treaty is the latest attempt to solve the ten-year conflagration.
2) The historic tavern burned to the ground in a horrible conflagration.
Origin:
From Latin confagratio which means 'to blaze'.
First use:
1600
Synonyms:
fire, holocaust, inferno, flames, firestorm, blaze
Anotonyms:
peace, truce, tranquility
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