The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat. / A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.

To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze. / To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour.

Of a brilliant reddish orange-gold colour, like that of a flame.

plural of flame

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flame

simple past tense and past participle of flame

Cooked or seared over open flames. / Having an undulating pattern of wood grain that resembles flames.

(figuratively, with a verb) Dramatically and with no hope of recovery.

(poetic) Full of flame; fiery.

On fire with visible flames. / Very bright and the color of flame. / (colloquial) Extremely obvious; visibly evident. Typically of a homosexual male. / (Britain, colloquial) Damned, bloody.