"flame up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-flame up.ogg [Australia] Forms: flames up [present, singular, third-person], flaming up [participle, present], flamed up [participle, past], flamed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} flame up (third-person singular simple present flames up, present participle flaming up, simple past and past participle flamed up)
  1. (intransitive) To flare; to become inflamed. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-flame_up-en-verb-j~YyCFLm
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To suddenly become extremely angry. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-flame_up-en-verb-C8hWUhHl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 22 78
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: flare up

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for flame up meaning in English (1.7kB)

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