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 Translation for 'conflagration' from English to Russian
NOUN   a conflagration | conflagrations
SYNO conflagration | inferno
разрушительный пожар {м} [особ. большого масштаба]conflagration
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Usage Examples English
  • Ultimately, his marriage—intended to protect both himself and his library—destroys both instead, in the conflagration alluded to by the English-language title, "Auto-da-Fe".
  • There was conflagration which completed the destruction of the city and the ruins went by the name of Jhunsi, a burnt town from the Hindi root 'jhulasna'.
  • Most of Schiff's notes on the four Ṭurim, as well as his cabalistic works and Talmudic decisions, were destroyed during the conflagration at Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1711.
  • forces ignited petroleum and gasoline in the fort, the conflagration killing 68 Japanese soldiers and leaving it permanently out of commission.
  • In 1548, on the Friday after Jubilate Sunday, a conflagration reduced the village of Hitzacker to ashes apart from the church and one house.

  • Chain ganging is a term in the field of international relations describing the elevated probability for interstate conflict or conflagration due to several states having joined in alliances or coalitions.
  • The two trends of increasing vulnerability over the Internet and ease of attack make conflagration of iWar probable.
  • When a fire spreads beyond the building of its origin and spreads throughout the neighborhood, it is called a “conflagration.” Today, a conflagration is a large fire that is beyond the capability of the fire service to contain.
  • The Fire of Novonikolayevsk was a conflagration that swept through the central part of Novonikolayevsk (current Novosibirsk) on May 11, 1909.
  • Firefighting is the practice of extinguishing a conflagration, protecting life and property and minimizing damage and injury.

  • The San Francisco Fire of 1851 (May 3–4, 1851) was a catastrophic conflagration that destroyed as much as three-quarters of San Francisco, California.
  • In 1697, there was a masonry building, owned by merchant Kristapas Staškevičius. After conflagration in 1748, the house was rebuilt by Starodub elder Andrius Abramavičius.
  • In the Tamana District, Kumamoto Prefecture, it is a mysterious fire that would fall from the heavens and has a size about that of a paper lantern, and it is said that a conflagration results when it falls on the roof of a house.
  • Kshetra during the conflagration of Svarna Lanka on the eve of Rama-Ravana war.
  • A conflagration in the castle on 16 September 2006 rendered the castle inaccessible. The castle has remained in private ownership and is presumed to be on sale.

  • Naval Engineering School was burnt in a conflagration setting some parts of Kasimpasa on fire in 1821, and it was transferred to reconstructed Errehane (sawmill) building around Parmakkapi in the shipyard in 1822.
  • Tragedy struck Minden in the early morning hours of May 15, 1942 when the village's worst conflagration since 1890 swept the Minden side of Main Street, destroying virtually everything, including the Echo building.
  • In 1798, a conflagration destroys the town; the area of Wiener Straße is especially hard hit.
  • The same conditions contributed to a major conflagration nearby in the 1923 Berkeley fire and a more limited conflagration in the same area on September [...] 22, 1970, again under similar conditions.
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