"blaze away" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-blaze away.ogg [Australia] Forms: blazes away [present, singular, third-person], blazing away [participle, present], blazed away [participle, past], blazed away [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} blaze away (third-person singular simple present blazes away, present participle blazing away, simple past and past participle blazed away)
  1. (firearms, intransitive, idiomatic) To fire (firearms) repeatedly. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Categories (topical): Firearms

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for blaze away meaning in English (2.3kB)

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