ON FIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on fire mean? 

• ON FIRE (adjective)
  The adjective ON FIRE has 1 sense:

1. lighted up by or as by fire or flame

  Familiarity information: ON FIRE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON FIRE (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 

I thought and thought what should be my next move, but my brain seemed on fire, and I waited with a despairing feeling growing over me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This year, your imagination will be on fire, so keep pressing forward with a sense of purpose, and show the world what you are capable of doing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

My visitor was, indeed, on fire with sombre excitement.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Oh, my heart on fire, show the jacket to us! Oh, my eyes and limbs, bring the jacket out!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Had we a rope,” said Alleyne, “there is one side which is not yet on fire, down which we might slip.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“But he’s all on fire to start, Colonel, so we had best go out if you are ready.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Words used to describe very hot pain include 'burning' and 'on fire.'

(NPS - Tell Us How Hot Your Pain Feels, NCI Thesaurus)

Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, I was all on fire to go over them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A small timber-yard still exists, however, at the back of the house, and last night, about twelve o’clock, an alarm was given that one of the stacks was on fire.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)