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Definition: Afire |
AfireAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "afire" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Note: Afire \A*fire"\, adverb. adjective. [Prefix a- fire.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AfireSynonyms: ablaze(p) (adj), afire(p) (adj), aflame(p) (adj), aflare(p) (adj), alight(p) (adj), blazing (adj), burning (adj), flaming (adj), on fire(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Afire |
| English words defined with "afire": ablaze, aflame, aflare, alight ♦ blazing, burning ♦ enkindled ♦ flaming ♦ ignited ♦ kindled ♦ lighted, lit ♦ on fire ♦ set afire ♦ unkindled, unlighted, unlit. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hearts Afire (1992) | |
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 | Line engravings published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume 1, pages 246-47. The upper view depicts the 8 March 1862 action off Newport News, Virginia, in which Virginia sank USS Cumberland and set USS Congress afire. The lower view depicts the battle between Virginia and USS Monitor in Hampton Roads on 9 March 1862.Credit: NAVY. |  | Aground and afire off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, circa late November 1942. She had been torpedoed by the Japanese submarine I-16 on 28 November. Men are handling cargo on the beach, possibly assisting in unloading Alchiba while she was fighting her fires. Note barbed wire fencing in the foreground.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Scene just after the Japanese torpedo plane attack on shipping between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, 8 August 1942. USS George F. Elliott (AP-13) is afire in the left center. She had been hit by a crashing enemy aircraft. The other two smoke plumes mark the locations of planes that crashed into the water.Credit: NAVY. |  | Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 54, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts Ordinary Seaman Duncan throwing a burning cartridge overboard on USS Fort Hindman, after it was set afire by an exploding shell. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in this incident, which took place during an engagement with an enemy battery near Harrisonburg, Louisiana, on 2 March 1864. James K.L. Duncan was born at Frankfort, PA, in 1845.Credit: NAVY. |
 | 19th Century cyanotype photographic print of an oil painting by R.S. Floyd, depicting CSS Florida chasing a merchant sailing ship, after having set another prize afire (in the right distance). This may depict the events of 10 July 1864, when Florida took four prizes off the Eastern Shore of Maryland: the bark General Berry, which was captured first and burned; the bark (not a ship as shown here) Zelinda, captured second and burned later in the day; the schooner Howard, which was bonded and released with prisoners from previous captures; and the steamer Electric Spark, which was scuttled during the following night.Credit: NAVY. |  | Two "Liberty" ships afire in Algiers harbor, following a German air attack, 16 July 1943. USS Savannah (CL-42) is in the foreground.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Japanese "Zeke" type Kamikaze aircraft diving on the ship during the Lingayen Gulf operation, 6 January 1945. This plane, afire from hits by the ship's guns, crashed close aboard, showering Columbia's superstructure with gasoline.Credit: NAVY. |  | Afire after being hit by Japanese "Kamikaze" suicide planes, while operating off the Philippines on 30 October 1944. Photographed from USS Brush (DD-745. Note "flak" bursts over the ships.Credit: NAVY. |
 | Burning aft after she was hit by a Kamikaze, while operating off the Philippines on 30 October 1944. Flight deck crewmen are moving undamaged TBM torpedo planes away from the flames as others fight the fires. USS Franklin (CV-13), also hit during this Kamikaze attack, is afire in the distance.Credit: NAVY. |  | Gives "Last Rites" to an injured crewman aboard USS Franklin (CV-13), after the ship was set afire by a Japanese air attack, 19 March 1945. The crewman is reportedly Robert C. Blanchard, who survived his injuries.Credit: NAVY. |
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 | Fireball; meteor; fiery; ablaze; afire; aflame; alight; blazing; burning; conflagrant; flaming; flaring; ignited; lighted; afire; fire. |
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| "Afire" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Afire" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "afire": all afire ♦ make afire ♦ set afire. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
hearts afire | 13 |
afire bey v | 5 |
afire | 4 |
afire classic explosion rock | 4 |
afire explosion rock | 3 |
afire inside | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "afire"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | në zjarr (on fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشتعلا, مشتعل (ablaze, aflame, alight, be alight, blazing, burner, burning, conflagrant, flaring, in flames, on fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | горящ (ablaze, alight, burning, live, on fire), в огън, запален (alight, burning, enthusiastic, mad), пламнал (ablaze, aflame, aglow, blazing, glowing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | v ohni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vurig (ablaze, aflame, aglow, ardent, full of zeal, lively, vivacious, zealous), verzendend (ablaze, aflame, aglow, ardent), verterend (ablaze, aflame, aglow, ardent), gloeiend (ablaze, aflame, aglow, ardent, hot), brandend (ablaze, burning, pressing, urgent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | شعله ور (Aflame, Alight, Garish, Inflammable), درحال سوختن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tulessa (aflame). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ardant (aflame), enflammé, en feu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | in brand. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καιγόμενοσ, φλεγόμενοσ (ablaze, aflame, flaming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | בוער באש. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lángolva (aflame, alight), égve (aflame), tűzben állva (aflame), tűzben álló (aflame), lángoló (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, blazing, flaming, flamy, flaring, lurid, red-hot), lángban állva (aflame), lángban álló (ablaze), lángba borulva (aflame), kigyulladva (aflame), kigyulladt (aflame), égő (alight, bulb, burner, consumable, flagrant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | terbakar (ablaze, aflame, burned down, on fire), menyala (ablaze, aflame, blaze, burning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ardente (ablaze, aflame, aglow, ardent, burning, eager, earnest, fervent, fierce, fiery, hot, live, passionate, weather helm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 焼き討ち (set afire), 焼き"ち (set afire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | やきうち (set afire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lossey (ablaze, aflame, blaze, blush, burning, flame, flame up, flare, flush, flush in fever, ignition, light), er-aile (ablaze, on fire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | afireay ardente (ablaze, aflame, aglow, alight, ardent, blazing, burning, eager, feelingly, fervent, fervor, fierceness, fiery, flaming, het up, hot, hot-blooded, Hotspur, incantation, intense, keen, longing, passionate, scorching, torrid, tropic, tropical, vehement, volcanic, warm), em chamas (aflame, alight, blazing), em brasa (glowing, live). (various references) în flãcãri (ablaze, aflame, aglow, fiery, flaming, in a blaze, inflamed, lurid). (various references) в огне (ablaze, aflame). (various references) u plamenu (ablaze, aglow, fire: on fire). (various references) ardiendo (ablaze, alight, alive). (various references) i brand (aflame), eld och lågor (ablaze, aflame). (various references) alevler içindeki (aflame), alev alev (ablaze, aflame), yanan (ablaze, aflame, alight, blazing, burning, flaming), tutuşmuş (aflame, alight, on fire). (various references) у вогні (ablaze, aflame, alight, alow), охоплений полум'ям (aflame), палаючий пристрастю. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Afire" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abier, abire, Abiru, acier, Adire, aface, afage, afare, afari, afate, afee, afete, affare, affer, affreux, Afgie, afi, Af-i, afien, afine, afira, afoe, afora, Afori, Afrem, afri, agier, agira, agire, ahire, aier, aiere, Aife, aire, airee, airel, aireo, Airex, Akirebi, alire, amire, Aoife, aqire, arfie, asire, atire, Aufiria, Aveiro, avier, avirex, awire, axire, Aziru, efrie, fairen, fairo, farie, fayre, hfire, ofir, ofire, safire, Takfir. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "afire" (pronounced ufī"r) |
| 3 | -f ī" r | fire. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: feria. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-r" | |
-1 letter: fair, fare, fear, fiar, fire, frae, reif, rife. | |
-2 letters: air, are, arf, ear, era, far, fer, fie, fir, ire, ref, rei, ria, rif. | |
-3 letters: ae, ai, ar, ef, er, fa, if, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-i-r" | |
+1 letter: aerify, faerie, fainer, faired, fairer, farcie, feriae, ferial, ferias, fiacre, fraise, infare. | |
+2 letters: affaire, affixer, airfare, aquifer, barefit, daffier, faddier, faeries, failure, fainter, fairest, fairies, fancier, farcies, farrier, farside, fattier, fawnier, fearing, fiacres, filaree, firearm, fireman, firepan, flakier, flamier, flawier, flaxier, foamier, fragile, frailer, fraises, freesia, friable, frigate, giraffe, infares, leafier, piaffer, reaffix, refrain, refugia. | |
+3 letters: aerified, aerifies, aeriform, aerofoil, afebrile, affaires, affirmed, affirmer, affixers, airfares, airfield, airframe, aperitif, aquifers, argufied, argufier, argufies, artifice, backfire, balefire, barflies, basifier, biforate, campfire, chaffier, craftier, draffier, draftier, driftage, failures, fainters, fairlead, fairness, fakeries, fanciers, faradise, faradize, farinose, farmwife, farriers, farriery, farsides, faultier, favorite, featlier, feracity, ferriage, feterita, fibranne, figeater, figurate, filagree, filarees, filariae, filature, filtrate, fimbriae, finagler, fireable, firearms, fireback, fireball, firebase, fireboat, firebrat, fireclay, firedamp, firefang, firehall, firepans, firetrap, firewall, firmware, flabbier, flaggier, flanerie, flappier, flashier, floatier, foresaid, foresail, frailest, fraulein, freakier, freakily, freaking, freakish, freesias, friaries, frigates, fruitage, gasifier, giftware, giraffes, hangfire, infernal, inflamer, inflater, infrared, misframe, pacifier, panfried, panfries, piaffers, pinafore, prefixal, ramified, ramifies, rarefied, rarefier, rarefies, rarified, rarifies, ratified, ratifier, ratifies, reaffirm, refacing, refrains, repacify, rifleman, safaried, sanserif, tariffed, trifecta, unfairer, vinifera, wafering, wakerife, weariful. | |
+4 letters: acidifier, aerifying, aerofoils, affirmers, affricate, aforesaid, afterlife, aftertime, airfields, airframes, airlifted, amplifier, aperitifs, archfiend, argufiers, artificer, artifices, backfired, backfires, balefires, basifiers, bifurcate, briefcase, cafeteria, cafetoria, campfires, carnified, carnifies, ceasefire, clarified, clarifier, clarifies, craftiest, defraying, draffiest, draftiest, drawknife, driftages, dwarflike, enframing, fabricate, factories, factorize, fairleads, fairylike, falsifier, faltering, faradised, faradises, faradized, faradizes, farmwives, farseeing, fashioner, fathering, favorites, featuring, feodaries, ferriages, feteritas, feudaries, fibrannes, fibrillae, fieldfare, figeaters, filagreed, filagrees, filatures, filmmaker, filtrable, filtrated, filtrates, fimbriate, finaglers, financier, firebacks, fireballs, firebases, fireboats, firebrand, firebrats, firebreak, fireclays, firedamps, firedrake, firefangs, fireguard, firehalls, firemanic, fireplace, firetraps, firewalls, firewater, firmament, firmwares, fisherman, flaneries, flatliner, flauntier, floriated, forebrain, foresails, forestial, formalise, formalize, formamide, formative, fornicate, fortalice, frailness, frailties, frambesia, framboise, franchise, frangible, frauleins, freakiest, fricassee, fricative, friedcake, fruitages, fruitcake, garfishes, gasifiers, gearshift, giftwares, gratified, gratifies, hangfires, headfirst, infarcted, inferable, inflamers, inflaters, infracted, infrareds, infuriate, ingrafted, interface, laticifer, lifeguard, lifesaver, magnifier, mainframe, misfeasor, misframed, misframes, nefarious, oarfishes, oriflamme, ossifrage, pacifiers, pilferage, pinafored, pinafores, preachify, prefacing, prefading, qualifier, raffinose, rafflesia, rarefiers, rarefying, ratfishes, ratifiers, reaffirms, reaffixed, reaffixes, refalling, refashion, refinance, reflating, reflation, refrained, reframing, reinflate, requalify, sacrifice, safranine, sanserifs, saxifrage, scarified, scarifier, scarifies, seafaring, semidwarf, spearfish, tackifier, threadfin, trifectas, ultrafine, unfairest, viniferas, welfarism, welfarist. | |
+5 letters: acidifiers, affirmable, affirmance, affricates, affrighted, afterbirth, afterimage, afterlives, afterpiece, aftertimes, airfreight, airproofed, alderflies, amplifiers, anglerfish, antifreeze, antireform, aquiferous, archerfish, archfiends, artificers, auriferous, beautifier, bedwarfing, bifurcated, bifurcates, boarfishes, breadfruit, briefcases, cafeterias, cafetorium, calciferol, ceasefires, chaffering, chamfering, clarifiers, classifier, clofibrate, cofavorite, craftiness, crawfished, crawfishes, crayfishes, defoliator, defrauding, diffracted, disfavored, draftiness, driveshaft, engrafting, fabricated, fabricates, factorized, factorizes, faggotries, fairleader, fairnesses, falconries, falsifiers, fantasizer, farrieries, farsighted, fashioners, fatherlike, featherier, feathering, federacies, federalism, federalist, federalize, federating, federation, federative, feracities, fiberboard, fiberglass, fibreboard, fibreglass, fibrillate, fieldfares, figurative, figurehead, filariases, filmmakers, filterable, fimbriated, financiers, fingernail, fireballer, firebrands, firebreaks, firedrakes, firefanged, fireguards, fireplaced, fireplaces, firewalled, firewaters, firmaments, flackeries, flatliners, flatteries, flattering, florilegia, fluoridate, fluorinate, forbearing, forearming, forebrains, forecaddie, foredating, foreladies, foreordain, forgivable, formalised, formalises, formalized, formalizer, formalizes, formamides, formatives, formidable, fornicated, fornicates, fortalices, fortepiano, fractioned, frambesias, framboises, frameshift, franchised, franchisee, franchiser, franchises, frangipane, fraternity, fraternize, fratricide, fraxinella, freakiness, freakishly, freebasing, freemartin, freightage, fricandeau, fricandoes, fricasseed, fricassees, fricatives, friedcakes, fruitcakes, fumatories, fundraiser, furanoside, gauffering, gearshifts, grainfield, grapefruit, grayfishes, hardfisted, infantries, infernally, infiltrate, infuriated, infuriates, interfaced, interfaces, interfaith, intergraft, isografted, ladyfinger, laticifers, lifeguards, lifesavers, luciferase, magnifiers, mainframes, manifester, misfeasors, misgrafted, oriflammes, ossifrages, overfacile, painfuller, paraffined, pathfinder, perfoliate, persiflage, pianoforte, pilferable, pilferages, pinfeather, prefabbing, prefascist, prefinance, prequalify, profitable, profligate, qualifiers, quantifier, quatrefoil, raffinoses, rafflesias, rainforest, reaffirmed, reaffixing, reclassify, redrafting, refashions, refillable, refinanced, refinances, reflations, refloating, refractile, refracting, refraction, refractive, refraining, refutation, regrafting, reinflated, reinflates, repacified, repacifies, restaffing, rijsttafel, sacrificed, sacrificer, sacrifices, safranines, sanctifier, saponifier, saxifrages, scarifiers, seafarings, semidwarfs, semiformal, starfishes, stratified, stratifies, tackifiers, threadfins, trafficked, trafficker, transfixed, transfixes, trifoliate, trifurcate, ultrafiche, unfairness, unfavorite, verifiable, vociferant, vociferate, wearifully, welfarisms, welfarists, wharfinger, wolframite. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 69 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. .. .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01101001 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f i r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 0069 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3572758471 |
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