Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. On or as if on fire.
- adv. Keenly excited and interested.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- On fire; in or into flame; ablaze.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In flames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lighted up by or as by fire or flame
- adj. keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
Etymologies
- a- + flame (Wiktionary)
Examples
“While "aflame" could have been a slur... it could also refer to the geek term "flame" which is when a person or company is bashed on a forum/blog/chatroom in a very harsh, mean way.”
“Maybe "aflame" seemed to contain a slur against gays, but that doesn't explain replacing the strong verb "caved" with the weak "given in.”
“Evening Standard, the financial district is "aflame" with the idea, being loudly repeated by well-informed "gossips.”
“If anyone dared to speak up in defense, a la Samantha, she risked being doused with Long Island and set aflame.”
The Huffington Post: Leslie Goldman: Do I Look Fat in This? Don't Ask, Don't Tell
“Washington did not resign when he returned because the frontier was aflame.”
“The assembly was about to meet, and the frontier was aflame.”
“For a lunch of classic fare, choose the sausage served aflame on a small grill at the table.”
“The Nazis then threw oil on the walls and set the building aflame.”
The Huffington Post: Megan Smolenyak: Lisa Kudrow: Who Do You Think You Are?
“By "quietly" I mean without gunfire in the streets and entire cities set aflame.”
The Huffington Post: Ben Tripp: What Happens After the Election?
“Jeremiah Lusby and Marlenah “Coehlo” Wolf get cozy beneath a hoop aflame in this amazing shot by Abject Photo.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aflame’.
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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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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 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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minneapolitan's Words
hissyfit, fussbudget, aghast, lament, trichinellosis, tranche, decadent, aspersion, pejorative, aniline, galoshes, accede and 200 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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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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A list
clench, shudder, clamp, twisting, sharply, thrusting, crashing, pulsing, curling, thrumming, rippling, wrench and 94 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2263 more...
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lux
All things light-filled and radiant.
scintillate, radiate, elucidate, emanate, illuminate, sparkling, sparkle, glitter, glittering, glisten, shine, brighten and 97 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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☼ words that shine and glimmer
effulgent, lucent, incandescent, refulgent, iridescent, erubescent, surya, glitter, aubade, lambent, heliotropic, radiance and 9 more...
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Poetrie: A Poem
My stomach was uneasy, but now it's at rest.
My thirst was aflame, but now it is quenched.
My sex was aroused, but now it is quiet.
I ached all over, but now I feel well.
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