Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being on fire: The house is ablaze.
- adj. Radiant with bright color: a maple tree ablaze in autumn.
- adj. Fervent or excited.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- On fire; in a blaze; burning briskly: as, the bonfire is ablaze.
- Figuratively, in a state of excitement or eager desire.
- This was Emerson's method, … to write the perfect line, to set the imagination ablaze with a single verse.
- Gleaming; brilliantly lighted up: as, ablaze with jewelry.
Wiktionary
- adj. Radiant with bright light and color.
- adj. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
- adv. Lit up brightly and with color.
- adv. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
- adv. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lighted up by or as by fire or flame
- adj. resembling flame in brilliance or color
- adj. lighted with red light as if with flames
- adj. keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
Etymologies
- a- (“on, in”) + blaze (“flame”) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Even if you gulp a glass of butter milk after it you will remain ablaze for the next 24hrs.”
“Later there will be fireworks, her name ablaze: MARCELLA.”
“To my shame a reputation bent or maimed defamed the image staid, and disrepute disgraced my case, plagued with infamy and ill repute, a name ablaze by imputation as a most unsavoury reputation won or lost or never claimed.”
“So did a wonderful rendition of Lezginka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the Caucasus mountains and beyond.”
The Huffington Post: Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics (update)
“So did a wonderful rendition of Lezinka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the Caucasus mountains and beyond.”
The Huffington Post: Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics
“She had tried to sleep, but every time she closed her eyes she saw Sir Gareth, standing defiantly before the bridge, his broken sword ablaze with sunlight.”
“Lezinka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the”
“I had access to healing items and a potion that set my sword ablaze for added damage.”
“Temperance halls were set ablaze, sometimes by lone arsonists but often by volunteer Irish “fire companies.””
“One month after the school strike, ten African Americans died in a Near West Side apartment building set ablaze by arsonists.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ablaze’.
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important
shamanism, consol, sanguine, iffy, affinity, concatenation, honed, innumberable, aiden, inexorable, vet, suss and 176 more...
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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A to abominator (Chambers)
aa gets over 40 hits
aardvark 49 hits
abbatoir 103 hits
abjure 138 hitsA, A-line, A-list, A-lister, A 1, A-road, A-side, from A to B, from A to Z, A-bomb, A-effect, A level and 254 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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I am : bright
Verbs and adjectives (mostly adjectives) pertaining to physical light, brightness and/or clarity.
bright, brilliant, ablaze, afire, aflame, incandescent, fluorescent, phosphorescent, lucent, lambent, transparent, clear and 29 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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words i love
mahogany, serenity, quell, requiem, parhelion, echo, surfacing, ethereal, melodic, vivid, sirenic, sprightly and 122 more...
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Inner B
Words with the letter b within the word, not just as the initial or last letter.
remember, maybe, able, unable, nimble, cable, reusable, thimble, cymbal, capable, tremble, enable and 143 more...
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christy927's list
...all my favorite words...
chrysalis, mahogany, indigo, elysian, rubenesque, cataclysmic, scythe, archaic, gaelic, trollop, sycamore, canopy and 279 more...
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amsstory's list
pretentious, delectable, egomaniacal, lionize, titillate, nebulous, obfuscation, ostentatious, wry, precipice, ethereal, echo and 150 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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Love
A general collection of the sort of words that make me happy when I hear or read them in everyday conversation and writing.
velleities, discombobulated, boggle, breathtaking, enchanting, siren, luscious, moment, fiasco, delirium, darling, ethereal and 215 more...
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Words.
synesthesia, synaesthesia, twilit, twilight, abysmal, perpetual, mellifluous, incandescent, brilliant, radiant, articulate, discombobulated and 55 more...
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Whatever our souls are made of, his a...
words of passion
longing, ache, desire, ablaze, feverish, fiery, passionate, fervent, ardent, whisper, ravish, trembling and 5 more...
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I
deftly, coracle, delectable, snug, sprawly, disquieting, dismiss, peer, chimney, cosy, nursery, peep and 48 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ablaze.
Prolagus Elope with me Miss Private and we'll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we'll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase.
(Piazza, New York Catcher, by Belle and Sebastian) Aug 5, 2008