AFIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afire mean? 

• AFIRE (adjective)
  The adjective AFIRE has 1 sense:

1. lighted up by or as by fire or flame

  Familiarity information: AFIRE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFIRE (adjective)

Sense 1

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)

 Context examples 

His voice sounded louder and higher, as if he were afire with eagerness and rage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I am afire with what I have to say in verse, and fiction, and essay.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We never shall be rich, and Plumfield may burn up any night, for that incorrigible Tommy Bangs will smoke sweet-fern cigars under the bed-clothes, though he's set himself afire three times already.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Jo turned hot at the bare idea, and stuffed the whole bundle into her stove, nearly setting the chimney afire with the blaze.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The others sat round the fire, talking away, utterly regardless of the lapse of time, till Meg, whose maternal mind was impressed with a firm conviction that Daisy had tumbled out of bed, and Demi set his nightgown afire studying the structure of matches, made a move to go.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)