fire-storm

A form of firestorm — A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.

Meanings

nounfire-storm (plural fire-storms)

plural fire-storms

  1. alternativeAlternative form of firestorm.

    His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.

    1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 1
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