Thesaurus: wildfire

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1. n. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
2. n. An old name for erysipelas.
3. n. A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.
4. n. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder.
5. n. a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
6. 1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire. Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench. Bacon. 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.]
7. n:100 n. a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration