ablaze

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I had access to healing items and a potion that set my sword ablaze for added damage.

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  1. adjective Being on fire: The house is ablaze.
  2. adjective Radiant with bright color: a maple tree ablaze in autumn.
  3. adjective Fervent or excited.

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  • Firefighters arrived soon thereafter to find the mangled sedan and 53 'foot cargo trailer full of used tires ablaze, and immediately attacked the well-entrenched flames, as California Highway Patrol Officers closed all lanes of travel. —  LAFD News & Information
  • Firefighters arrived quickly to discover a three vehicle collision with one vehicle ablaze, and flames threatening others as debris blocked multiple lanes of travel. —  LAFD News & Information
  • LOS ANGELES (AP) - A barber accused of killing a homeless man near his work last year by dousing him with a flammable liquid and setting him ablaze was arrested Thursday, police said. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
  • The hourlong rampage began when he killed his mother and set her house ablaze, and he would kill three others seemingly at random and spray more than 200 bullets before shooting himself at the Reliable Metals plant in Samson.
  • Unrest began Monday when protesters set the government broadcasting complex ablaze, along with an oil depot, shopping mall and a private TV station linked to Ravalomanana. —  - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
 

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/əˈbleɪz/
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