Betekenis van:
wildfire

wildfire
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration

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    Voorbeeldzinnen

    1. The news spread like wildfire.
    2. Malicious gossip spreads like wildfire. I guess that's why they say bad news travels fast.
    3. Vulnerable areas characterised according to natural hazards (all atmospheric, hydrologic, seismic, volcanic and wildfire phenomena that, because of their location, severity, and frequency, have the potential to seriously affect society), e.g. floods, landslides and subsidence, avalanches, forest fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions.