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flamed

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Plenty of Microsoft haters on HN, this post has already been flagged or flamed off the front page.

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Quick take

Cooked or seared over open flames.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Cooked or seared over open flames.

adjective

Having an undulating pattern of wood grain that resembles flames.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flamed.

adjective

Cooked or seared over open flames.

adjective

Having an undulating pattern of wood grain that resembles flames.

Example sentences

1

Plenty of Microsoft haters on HN, this post has already been flagged or flamed off the front page.

2

First, if this guy is really so great, why has he flamed out of 3 firms in 5 years?

3

I flamed out on cheaters once by telling students they could decide for themselves what their grade was.

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After that flamed out, many people from there ended up at Android as well.

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The OP flamed out because Google was looking for something he was not.

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Well yes, if you wade into an internet-wide flamewar, you will be flamed.

7

Niche book on a tech topic that flamed out after a few years.

8

Perhaps I'm just begging to be flamed, but I've noticed this quite a bit with TDD.

9

I had the privilege of being personally flamed by Derek Smart on Usenet in the mid-'90s.

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But this being HN, I've been downvoted and/or flamed at least 8 times for it.

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Personally I think its harder for people to understand concurrency issues WRT recursion, but I'll probably just get flamed for that one.

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Sidenote: Jonah Lehrer flamed out pretty spectacularly in 2012 after it emerged that he had distorted and fabricated some of the information in his book Imagine.

Quote examples

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That seems to be the real advantage of anonymous discussion: you don't think to yourself "will I get downvoted/flamed/etc for posting this comment?" Though, as 4chan has proven, the level of discourse on an anonymous forum is just as proportional to the maturity of its members...

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In the context of the BusinessInsider piece on Fab that was on HN today this quote was actually kind of chilling: "When you look at Fab or some of the other things that got started and flamed out, I think there’s a lack of cost control," Vadon offers.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use flamed in a sentence?

Plenty of Microsoft haters on HN, this post has already been flagged or flamed off the front page.

What does flamed mean?

Cooked or seared over open flames.

What part of speech is flamed?

flamed is commonly used as adjective.