"towering inferno" meaning in English

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          "text": "We fed the campfire until it became a towering inferno before us.",
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          "text": "[T]he most compelling argument for avoiding Chungking Mansion is one of safety — it could be a towering inferno waiting to happen.",
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        "A tall fire, as of a building."
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        "(poetic) A tall fire, as of a building."
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          "text": "[A]nyone saying now that humans are a towering inferno of irrationality ought to be challenged, and aggressively so.",
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