upblaze
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editupblaze (third-person singular simple present upblazes, present participle upblazing, simple past and past participle upblazed)
- (intransitive) To blaze or shoot up.
Noun
editupblaze (plural upblazes)
- A blazing up.
- 1919, Ezra Pound, Instigations:
- His figures flood things with jets of various light, like the sudden upblaze of fountains.
- 2010, John Howard Griffin, Nuni:
- The upblaze of reflected heat burns my cheeks and eyes. Her body swims before me, spangled and transpierced by shafts of light caught in my tears. I croak that I am sorry for having invaded her hut.