liquid fire


noun
  1. flaming petroleum or the like, as employed against an enemy in warfare.

Origin of liquid fire

1
First recorded in 1860–65

Words Nearby liquid fire

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How to use liquid fire in a sentence

  • Vile aniseed brandy—liquid fire—was sold cheap, and many a man who began the day cool and sober ended it as a raving madman.

    The Chequers | James Runciman
  • The yell of triumph and joy which arose from the walls of the fortress seemed to turn my blood into liquid fire.

    A Heroine of France | Evelyn Everett-Green
  • The bottle, however, did not contain soda, but what may well be termed "liquid fire."

    Shadow, the Mysterious Detective | Police Captain Howard
  • What a wild and spectacular condition existed while the river, deep in the cañon, received these tributaries of liquid fire!

    Your National Parks | Enos A. Mills
  • It was the invention of the seventh century, and was long used with terrific effect by the Greeks, who called it the liquid fire.

British Dictionary definitions for liquid fire

liquid fire

noun
  1. inflammable petroleum or other liquid used as a weapon of war in flamethrowers, etc

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