conflagration
LARGE AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE THAT THREATENS HUMAN LIFE, ANIMAL LIFE, HEALTH, AND/OR PROPERTY
Fire Disaster; Conflagrations; Conflagrate; Conflagrates; Conflagrated; Conflagrating; Conflagrational; Conflagratory; World conflagration; Fire (disaster); Uncontrolled fire; Disastrous fire; Fire (accident); Burned down
[?k?nfl?'gre??(?)n]
¦ noun an extensive and destructive fire.
Origin
C15: from L. conflagratio(n-), from conflagrare, from con- (expressing intensive force) + flagrare 'to blaze'.