ablaze
Collocations
3(adj.)
VERBS
be
set sth
The protesters set several cars ablaze during the demonstration last night.
ADV
well
The forest fire was well ablaze by the time the rain finally started to fall.
Definitions
adj
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.
adv
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.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
61791, 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 […]
WiktionaryThe canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water, / Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.
WiktionarySo Wang and Tiger’s men rushed into such houses as were not too ablaze and they began to drag out booty of silken pieces and yards of cloth and garments and anything they could carry.
Wiktionary[…] with the spontaneous combustion the house smouldered ablaze.
WiktionaryThe sky was ablaze with fireworks.
Tatoeba · #18281The house was ablaze.
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