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单词 to burst into open flame
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to burst into (an) open flame
1. A state of combustion in which a flame is visible (as opposed to smouldering or glowing). Chiefly figurative or in figurative contexts: unconcealed and unrestrained passion, enmity, thoughts, etc. Frequently in to burst into (an) open flame and variants.
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1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) 53 She which before seemed to warme her selfe at Philotimus his fire, and learne loue of him, nowe her smoulderinge heate burst out to open flame.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. ii. sig. C4 By fauour of your loue, Our hidden smoke is turnd to open flame.
1606 J. Marston Wonder of Women i. ii. sig. B2 In open flame then passion breake.
1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica ii. 14 Envy and malice soultred within them, but brake not out into an open flame.
1827 Burke's Speech in Impeachm. W. Hastings, 30 May 1794 in Wks. (new ed.) XV. 161 It was at this crisis of aggravated insult and brutality, that the indignation, which these proceedings had occasioned in the breasts of the Rajah's subjects, burst out into an open flame.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. Introd. p. xxvi A smothered smoulderingness of disposition seldom roused to open flame.
1894 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Real Charlotte II. xxii. 106 The rivalry that exists, sometimes unconfessed, sometimes bursting into open flame, among the garden owners of the district.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 3 Oct. 2/2 Smouldering is often more difficult to deal with than open flame.
1945 A. Bryant Years of Victory xiv. 382 An accident that fanned the smouldering enmity between the two Marshals into open flame.
1994 Hist. Jrnl. 37 110 This conflict never burst into open flame, but remained muted, a nagging rumbling to which only Carey persistently referred.
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