Pronunciations
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/suːpəɹˈkɒnfləˈɡɹeɪʃən/
Noun
A very severe, blazing conflagration.
Usage- Rare
- Examples
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Over there, in the direction of Bainbridge, the sunset glowed like a superconflagration.
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Governments and common stocks is embodied in the philosophy that, with large common stock commitments, all the risk of the portfolio should be concentrated in this category while the rest of the portfolio should be riskless - a kind of superconflagration reserve.
In the mid-nineties was, physically, barely quarter-century old, almost all of it having been burned to the ground in October in 1871 in a superconflagration.
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Fires following these earthquakes would be a much bigger and broader issue than shown in the movie. In the much smaller M7.8 “ShakeOut Scenario” earthquake scenario for southern California, more than 1600 fires are projected to start, some becoming superconflagrations.