firebrand in English

noun
1
a person who is passionate about a particular cause, typically inciting change and taking radical action.
a political firebrand
2
a piece of burning wood.
In any case, it took a long time and a large number of men equipped with axes, swords, and firebrands to do such extensive damage that a whole community suffered economically.

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1. We kindled a firebrand in the cave.

2. The meaning of Blasa is "firebrand"

3. He had a reputation of an ambitious firebrand.

4. He is represented by the media as a dangerous firebrand .

5. I was a block of wood, I became a firebrand.

6. The one - time firebrand was seen to be soft - pedalling on his pet Hindutva .

7. Despite her frail appearance, Jocasta Nu was known as a firebrand among the Jedi.

8. Rooney display against Barcelona meant a sour ending an impressive - club season for the firebrand striker.

9. Yulia Tymoshenko , a firebrand politician in the orange revolution(Sentencedict.com), became Mr Yushchenko's first prime minister.

10. Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book

11. The young firebrand does appear to be a bit to restrain his more out - of - control followers.

12. The young firebrand does appear to be doing a bit to restrain his more out - of - control followers.

13. Based on a great range of documentary and scientific resources,With Broadax and Firebrand is an enormously ambitious book

14. Political Correctness 'Unbridled and Performative Student Activism Is a Disease of Affluence': Camille Paglia Edition Some students at the University of the Arts want the firebrand feminist fired.

15. But it makes the sort of sense that in the 1950s inspired Nye Bevan, a firebrand on the left of Britain’s Labour Party, to describe the centrist Hugh Gaitskell as a “desiccated calculating machine”.

16. Agitator noun troublemaker, revolutionary, inciter, firebrand, instigator, demagogue, rabble-rouser, agent provocateur, stirrer (informal) a famous actress who was accused of being a political Agitator Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition