Ablaze

Definition: Ablaze

Ablaze

Adjective

1. Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; "his face all ablaze with excitement"- Bram Stoker; "he was aflame with desire".

2. Lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "blazing logs in the fireplace"; "a burning cigarette"; "a flaming crackling fire"; "houses on fire".

3. Resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves".

4. Lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ablaze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Note: Ablaze \A*blaze"\, adverb & adjective. [Prefix a- + blaze.]. (references)

Synonyms: Ablaze

Heat

Fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling. Verb: in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smoldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool.

Crosswords: Ablaze

Hearts Ablaze (1915)

Ablaze (2001)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Heart Ablaze igniting A Passion For God (reference)

• A World Ablaze (Men at Arms, Bk 3) (reference)

• Ablaze for God (reference)

• Bubbles Ablaze (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dismal Euphony: Lady Ablaze (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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They direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but against the instruments of production themselves; they destroy imported wares that compete with their labour, they smash to pieces machinery, they set factories ablaze, they seek to restore by force the vanished status of the workman of the Middle Ages. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Kuwait

In the closing hours of the Gulf war in February 1991, the Iraqi occupation forces set ablaze or damaged 749 of Kuwait's oil wells. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "ablaze": ablaze with anger ♦ be ablaze ♦ set ablaze ♦ set smth. ablaze. Additional references.

Albanian

në flakë (aflame, alight, flaming), i ndezur (aglow, alight, bright, flamboyant, flame, glaring, glazy, hectic, high-colored, high-coloured, live, lively, noisy, on fire, vivid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملتهب (aflame, blazing, burning, fiery, flaming, flammable, impassioned, in flames, inflammatory, passionate, red-hot, vehement), ‏متقد (aflame, aglow, blazing, burning, fervent, fiery, flamboyance, flamboyancy, flaming, glowing, impassioned, incandescent, passionate, red-hot, strenuous, sultry, torrid, vehement), ‏مشتعل (afire, aflame, alight, be alight, blazing, burner, burning, conflagrant, flaring, in flames, on fire). (various references)

Bulgarian 

силно възбуден (boiling, het up), горящ от желание, горящ (afire, alight, burning, live, on fire), пламнал (afire, aflame, aglow, blazing, glowing). (various references)

Chinese 

起火. (various references)

Czech

v plameni, hořící (burning). (various references)

Dutch

vurig (afire, aflame, aglow, ardent, full of zeal, lively, vivacious, zealous), verzendend (afire, aflame, aglow, ardent), verterend (afire, aflame, aglow, ardent), gloeiend (afire, aflame, aglow, ardent, hot). (various references)

Esperanto

arda (ardent), flamanta. (various references)

Farsi 

فروزان (Luminous), مشتعل (Aflame, Blazing), سوزان (Acrimonious, Alight, Ardent, Fervid, Perfervid, Scathing, Torrid), درخشان (Bright, Illustrious, Lucid, Luminous, Phosphorescent, Shiner, Shiny, Starry, Stellar), برافروخته (Bloodshot). (various references)

Finnish

on tulessa (is ablaze, is on fire), olla liekkien vallassa (be ablaze), ilmiliekissä (all ablaze). (various references)

French

ardant. (various references)

German

lodernd (blazing, flaming), in Flammen (aflame). (various references)

Greek 

κατάφωτοσ, ξαναμμένοσ (hectic), φλεγόμενοσ (afire, aflame, flaming), φλεγόμενος (afire, aflame), φλογοβολόσ, φουντωμένοσ, λάμπων (aglow, alight, effulgent, incandescent, lucent, refulgent, shiny, spangly, sparkling, splendent), απαστράπτων (resplendent). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"ולק (alight, on fire), בוער (burning, flaming, on fire), באש (stench, stink). (various references)

Hungarian

lángvörös (red as a peony, red as a turkey-cock), izgatott (agog, be irritated, be on edge, delirious, excited, fazed, flurried, flustered, hectic, jumpy, ruffled, to be all of a sweat, to be flurried, to be in a fever, to be in a fry, to be in a sweat, to be keyed up, to be on edge, to feel nervous, to get into a flap, tumultuous, wrought up). (various references)

Indonesian

terbakar (afire, aflame, burned down, on fire), menyala (afire, aflame, blaze, burning), bernyala (aglow, deflagrate), berkobar (deflagrate, flare up, rage). (various references)

Italian

ardente (afire, aflame, aglow, ardent, burning, eager, earnest, fervent, fierce, fiery, hot, live, passionate), splendente (beaming, bright, shining, spick and span, sunny), fiammeggiante (blazing, flamboyant, flaming). (various references)

Manx

lostey (aflame, alight, alight set, burn, burn away, burn up, combustion, cremate, cremation, deflagration, fire, fire away, fire-raising, incinerate), lossey (afire, aflame, blaze, blush, burning, flame, flame up, flare, flush, flush in fever, ignition, light), er-aile (afire, on fire). (various references)

Pig Latin

ablazeay.(various references)

Portuguese

ardente (afire, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feeling, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, hotspur, incandescent, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm), inflamado (aglow, exalted, fiery, high-level, high-up, sore), inflamadamente, flamejante, chamejante, flamejante (decorated, flamboyant, flashy), excitado (astir, heartwarming, het up, horny, hot, jumpy, nervous, passionate, randy, vibrant, warm), entusiasmado (elate, high-minded, hot), entusiasmadamente, cheio de cólera (astir), chamejante (flaming), brilhante (agleam, bright, brilliant, champion, clear, diamond, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, fulgent, gay, glaring, glowing, lambent, light, lucent, lucid, luculent, luminous, lustrous, orient, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, splendent, starry, top-hole, vivid). (various references)

Romanian

aprins (aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, bright, brilliant, burning, eager, fervent, fiery, glowing, hasty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hothead, kindled, live, living, lurid, mercurial, passionate, peppery, perfervid, sharp, sudden, vehement, violent, vivid), strãlucitor (bright, brilliant, effulgent, flaming, flash, flashing, flashy, fresh, fulgent, gorgeous, irradiant, luminous, luminously, radiant, refulgent, relucent, resplendent, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, vivid), în flãcãri (afire, aflame, aglow, fiery, flaming, in a blaze, inflamed, lurid). (various references)

Russian 

возбужденный (agitated, aglow, agog, astir, excited, exhilarating, feverish, heated, hectic, het up, narked, overwrought, revved up), в огне (afire, aflame), пылать (blaze, flame, glow). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

u plamenu (afire, aglow, fire: on fire), raspaljen (incensed), gorući (blazing, burning, hot, urgent). (various references)

Spanish

ardiendo (afire, alight, alive), en llamas (afire, aflame, alight, burning). (various references)

Swedish

i lågor (alight). (various references)

Turkish

alevlí, alev alev (afire, aflame), yanan (afire, aflame, alight, blazing, burning, flaming), pırıl pırıl (agleam, as fresh as paint, refulgent, shimmery, sleek, sparkling, very clean), ışıltılı (agleam, bright, shining), ışıl ışıl (agleam, alight, ardent, brightly, brilliant, brilliantly, flaring, fresh, fulgurant, glaring, glaringly, glittering, irradiant, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, sparkling, sparklingly, starry). (various references)

Ukrainian

у вогні (afire, aflame, alight, alow), у полум'ї (alow), збуджений (agitated, animate, astir, excited, feverish, heated, hot, intoxicate, irritated, nervy, overwrought, spasmodic, tense, tumultuous, warm, wrought), блискаючий (glittering), палаючий (aflame, ardent, burning, fervid, flagrant, flaming, glowing, lurid). (various references)

Welsh

ar da+n (aflame), gwenfflam (blazing). (various references)

ardens. (various references)

Misspellings

"Ablaze" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abale, Abaza, Abazi, ablade, ablage, ablazed, ablazer, ablie, ablige, Abolfazi, abraze, Abuladze, Alazi, Albazin, Alhazen, alize, Alzate, Aulaye, balaze, Faulazo, Umlazi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: blaze.

-2 letters: able, alae, alba, baal, bale, blae, laze, zeal.

-3 letters: aal, aba, ala, alb, ale, baa, bal, bel, lab, lea, lez.

-4 letters: aa, ab, ae, al, ba, be, el, la.

+2 letters: banalize, grazable.

+3 letters: balkanize, banalized, banalizes, carbazole, grazeable, labialize, sleazebag.

+4 letters: analyzable, balkanized, balkanizes, carbazoles, catabolize, dialyzable, labialized, labializes, realizable, sleazebags, sleazeball, zabaglione.

+5 letters: alphabetize, amortizable, cannibalize, catabolized, catabolizes, localizable, organizable, polarizable, satirizable, sleazeballs, trailblazer, vaporizable, zabagliones.