Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Being on fire: The house is ablaze.
- adj. Radiant with bright color: a maple tree ablaze in autumn.
- adj. Fervent or excited.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adv. On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
- adv. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
from The 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Examples
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Even if you gulp a glass of butter milk after it you will remain ablaze for the next 24hrs.
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Later there will be fireworks, her name ablaze: MARCELLA.
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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.
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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.
Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics (update)
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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.
Evelyn Leopold: VE Day at the UN: Tchaikovsky and a Bit of Politics
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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.
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Lezinka, a boisterous dance in a raging tempo, drums ablaze, that is popular in the
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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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Temperance halls were set ablaze, sometimes by lone arsonists but often by volunteer Irish “fire companies.”
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One month after the school strike, ten African Americans died in a Near West Side apartment building set ablaze by arsonists.
Prolagus commented on the word ablaze
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)
August 5, 2008