wild·fire /-ˌfaɪr/
古時攻打敵船所用的燃料劑,燐火,鬼火
Wild·fire n.
1. A composition of inflammable materials, which, kindled, is very hard to quench; Greek fire.
Brimstone, pitch, wildfire . . . burn cruelly, and hard to quench. --Bacon.
2. Med. (a) An old name for erysipelas. (b) A disease of sheep, attended with inflammation of the skin.
3. A sort of lightning unaccompanied by thunder. [R.]
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wildfire
n : a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration