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What does spread like wildfire mean?

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  1. (intransitive, simile) To spread or disseminate rapidly or uncontrollably.
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The good news spread like wildfire and people began knocking on the doors of the RDÉE to benefit from its services.
A coffee shop once had its online ad spread like wildfire by offering one free new beverage on a given day.
As proposals for hazardous waste incinerators sprouted up throughout the country, The Rush to Burn spread like wildfire.
Despite emergency control measures, the disease spread like wildfire and has quickly become Iraqís biggest outbreak in recent memory.
And to add to the bad times that Omar was going through a rumour had spread like wildfire that he was boycotting national team games.
In the meantime, news of the famous visitor has evidently spread like wildfire.

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