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ABLAZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ablaze mean?
• ABLAZE (adjective)
The adjective ABLAZE has 4 senses:
1. keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
2. lighted up by or as by fire or flame
3. resembling flame in brilliance or color
4. lighted with red light as if with flames
Familiarity information: ABLAZE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
Synonyms:
Context example:
he was aflame with desire
Similar:
passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lighted up by or as by fire or flame
Synonyms:
ablaze; afire; aflame; aflare; alight; on fire
Context example:
houses on fire
Similar:
lighted; lit (set afire or burning)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Resembling flame in brilliance or color
Context example:
maple trees ablaze in autumn
Similar:
colorful; colourful (having much or varied color)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Lighted with red light as if with flames
Synonyms:
Context example:
reddened faces around the campfire
Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
Context examples
When I came back, I found him walking hurriedly up and down the room, his face all ablaze with excitement.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The dark sun-bronze of his face went black with wrath, his eyes were ablaze.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The wood had been soaked in oil, for in an instant it was ablaze, and a long, hissing, yellow flame licked over the heads of the defenders, and drove them further up to the first floor of the keep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was right, as appeared later; but in the meantime, the house being stifling hot and the little patch of sand inside the palisade ablaze with midday sun, I began to get another thought into my head, which was not by any means so right.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It sent the blood cold through Alleyne's veins to see that as they came together—the man and the beast—the creature reared up, with eyes ablaze with fear and hate, and whirled its great paws above the knight to smite him to the earth.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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