conflagration
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conflagration /ˌkɒnfləˈgreɪʃ(ə)n/
▶noun an extensive and destructive fire.
– origin C15: from L. conflagratio(n-), from conflagrare, from con- (expressing intensive force) + flagrare ‘to blaze’.
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