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BRUSH FIRE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brush fire mean?
• BRUSH FIRE (noun)
The noun BRUSH FIRE has 1 sense:
1. an uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes
Familiarity information: BRUSH FIRE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An uncontrolled fire that consumes brush and shrubs and bushes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("brush fire" is a kind of...):
fire (the event of something burning (often destructive))
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