1. a large destructive fire
2. a violent conflict or war
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The conflagration destroyed hundreds of homes in the canyon.
• Firefighters worked for days to contain the massive conflagration.
• The drought conditions led to a conflagration that burned thousands of acres.
• What started as a small kitchen fire became a neighborhood conflagration.
• The political dispute threatened to become a regional conflagration.
• Historians debate whether the conflagration could have been avoided through diplomacy.