Vocabulary
Conflagration
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
an extensive fire which destroys a great deal of land or property.
Urdu meaning
بے قابو آگ، آتشزدگی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The conference also brought the leaders of Pakistan and India face-to-face for the first time after their four-day conflict in May that had pushed the two nuclear-armed nations close to a wider conflagration.
- What are the remedies available to the two countries to pre-empt a future conflagration?
- WITHIN days of pounding Iran`s nuclear facilities with bunker-buster bombs, thus pushing the region to the brink of a wider conflagration, US President Donald Trump claims to have negotiated a ceasefire deal between Iran and Israel.
- The condemnation of Israel and the US should have been stronger for attacking Iran and creating the conditions for a regional conflagration.
- Do nothing, and the conflagration will spill over anyway, in the form of refugees or smuggled arms.
Synonyms
fire,flames, blaze, inferno,holocaust, firestorm,
Antonyms
demilitarization,disarmament, demobilization
Curator example
“tinder-dry conditions sparked fears of a conflagration in many drought-devastated communities”
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