blazen

From blaze +‎ -en.

blazen (third-person singular simple present blazens, present participle blazening, simple past and past participle blazened)

1. (transitive) To set ablaze
   • 1867, Biennial Report, page 252:

     An active rival, who let no opportunity escape to enhance his own interest to the detriment of ours, was unsparing in his efforts to blazen his own glories, and prevent the Eastern world from discovering anything valuable beyond the Mississippi river.

2. (intransitive) To be ablaze
   • 1970, Levi Lamoni Wight, The reminiscences and Civil War letters of Levi Lamoni Wight:

     We were on the left center, Mosleys battery on our left, brave men melting before the blazening cannon and chargeing^[sic] Infantry one volley after another and dead men were in piles.

• benzal

• IPA^(key): /ˈblaːzə(n)/

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• Rhymes: -aːzən

From Middle Dutch blâsen, from Old Dutch *blāsan, from Proto-Germanic *blēsaną.

blazen

1. (intransitive) to blow

   De bladeren bliezen in de wind.

   The leaves were blowing in the wind.

   Hij blaast zeepbellen.

   He is blowing soap bubbles.

• blaasinstrument
• afblazen
• opblazen
• inblazen

See the etymology of the main entry.

blazen

1. Plural form of blaas