TOWERINGINFERNO

towering inferno

Noun

  1. A tall fire, as of a building.
    We fed the campfire until it became a towering inferno before us.
    1he most compelling argument for avoiding Chungking Mansion is one of safety — it could be a towering inferno waiting to happen. Beth Reiber, Frommer's Hong Kong
  2. A powerful, untamed force.
    2nyone saying now that humans are a towering inferno of irrationality ought to be challenged, and aggressively so. — Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind's Past.


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