Flame Up

Definition: Flame Up

Flame Up

Verb

1. Burn brightly; "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Flame Up

Excitability

Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce.

The Big Flame Up (1949)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Ma knelt beside the fire, breaking twigs to keep the flame up under the stew kettle

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

shpërthej (blast, blow up, break, break out, burst, detonate, erupt, explode, flame out, freak, implode, let off, poke out), merr zjarr (catch fire, fire, flame out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إشتعل (burn, catch fire, flame, ignite, sparkle, strike). (various references)

Bulgarian 

лумвам (flame, flare, flare up, kindle), пламвам (burn up, catch fire, fire, flame, flare, flare up, flush, kindle, take, turn scarlet), избухвам в гняв (blow off steam, flame). (various references)

Czech

vzplanout (fire, flare up, fly into). (various references)

Finnish

viritä jälleen (be revived, flame up again). (various references)

French

s'enflammer, s'embrasser, se mettre en colère (flare up, flash, fly into a rage). (various references)

German

aufflammen (blaze up, flare up, inflammation, kindle, to flame up, to flash). (various references)

Greek 

φλέγομαι (blaze, flame, flare, incandesce). (various references)

Hungarian

fellángol (to burn up, to flame, to flame out, to flare up, to kindle), meggyullad (ignite, to break into flames, to burst into flame, to burst into flames, to catch fire, to flame up, to go up in flames, to ignite, to inflame, to kindle, to light, to take fire), lángra lobban (flare up, get inflamed, ignite, to blaze up, to break into flames, to burst into flame, to burst into flames, to catch alight, to flame up, to flare up, to go up in flames, to inflame). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

炎�'上�'て燃える (to flame up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほのお�'あ�'てもえる (to flame up). (various references)

Manx

lossey (ablaze, afire, aflame, blaze, blush, burning, flame, flare, flush, flush in fever, ignition, light), farbaghey (corrosion, fret, inflame, irritate). (various references)

Pig Latin

ameflay upay.(various references)

Romanian

se înroşi ca focul, se înfuria (become angry, cut up rough, fall into a rage, flare, fume, get angry, get into a paddy, get up steam, grow angry, rage). (various references)

Russian 

разгораться (flare up), разозлиться (flame out, flare up, turn nasty, wax angry), вспыхнуть (catch fire, flare up, flash), вспылить (fall into a passion, fire up, flame out, fly into a passion, fly off the handle), воспламениться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pocrveneti (blush, get red in the face). (various references)

Spanish

inflamarse (fire-proof, inflame, outbreak). (various references)

Swedish

flamma upp (blaze up, flame out, flare up, kindle), brusa upp (fire up, flame out, flare up). (various references)

Thai

เปลวไฟคุโชนอีก (flame out). (various references)

Turkish

tutuşmak (blaze, burn, catch, catch fire, ignite, inflame, kindle, take), sinirlenmek (be riled at, be steamed up, become angry, blow one's stack, bridle up, bristle up, cut up rough, flap, flare, flare out, get angry, get hot, get the willies, go off at half-cock, grow hot, jitter, lose one's temper, worry), küplere binmek (be hopping mad, flare, flare out, flash out, flip one's lid, get into a rage, have one's hackles up, ramp and rage, rave), alevlenivermek, öfkelenmek (be steamed up, blow one's stack, blow one's top, blow up, cut up rough, flash out, fly into a passion, fly out, get angry, get hot, get hot under the collar, go off the deep end, grow hot, lash oneself into a fury, lose one's temper, rampage, see red, storm, work oneself up into a rage). (various references)

Ukrainian

спалахнути (blaze up, break out, burst into flame, outblaze), розпалитися, почервоніти (flush, redden, ruddy, turn red). (various references)

bir. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ampule.

-2 letters: ample, ampul, flame, fleam, flume, flump, maple, plume, ulema.

-3 letters: alef, alme, alum, fame, feal, flam, flap, flea, flue, fuel, fume, lame, lamp, leaf, leap, lump, male, maul, meal, mule, pale, palm, peal, pelf, plea, plum, pula, pule, puma.

-4 letters: ale, alp, amp, amu, ape, eau, elf, elm, emf, emu, fem, feu.

+4 letters: superfamily, unamplified.

+5 letters: preformulate.