ablaze

Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.

1791, The Bee, Volume 4, Short Chronicle of Events, 27 July, 1791, p. v, On entering the walls which surround the house, then all ablaze, a most dreadful conflict took place […]

The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water, / Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.

Radiant with bright light and color.

The Heav’ns are all a-blaze, the face of night Is cover’d with a sanguine dreadful light:

All ablaze with crimson and gold.

In a state of glowing excitement, ardent desire, or other strong emotion.

c. 1680, uncredited translator, An Essay upon the Action of an Orator by Michel Le Faucheur, London: Nicholas Cox, pp. 184-185, And this Fire of your Eyes easily strikes those of your Auditors, who have theirs constantly fixt upon yours; and it must needs set them a-blaze too upon the same Resentment and Passion.

The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos.

On fire; in a blaze.

[…] with the spontaneous combustion the house smouldered ablaze.

Lit up brightly and with color, gleaming.

In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.