superconflagration

Definitions

A very severe, blazing conflagration.

rare

Examples

“Over there, in the direction of Bainbridge, the sunset glowed like⟳ a superconflagration.”

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level