Wildfire

[Wild·fire]

A raging and rapidly spreading conflagration

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A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.

Noun
a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration


n.
A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.

n.
An old name for erysipelas.

n.
A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.

n.
A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.


Wildfire

Wild"fire , n. 1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench.
2. (Med.) (a) An old name for erysipelas. (b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin. 3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.]

A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.

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Usage Examples

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

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Other Usage Examples

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

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