Crossword clues for ablaze
ablaze
- Idle Jack leads, fuming
- A black loaf is burning
- Brightly colored
- Not merely smoldering
- Engulfed in flames
- All lit up
- In need of extinguishing
- Burning brightly
- All fired up?
- Brightly lit
- Roaring, maybe
- Rapidly oxidizing
- Radiant with color
- Fully engulfed, perhaps
- Currently combusting
- Burning intensely
- Brimming with zeal
- Bright with light
- "World ___" (Killswitch Engage)
- In flames
- Like hell
- Zealous
- On fire
- Like a fireplace
- Really lit
- Going up in flames
- Flaming
- Lit up
- Fired up?
- Fiery
- Like Chicago in 1871
- Burning out of control
- A bishop with zeal for reform is extremely fiery
- A short jacket, brightly coloured?
- A jacket almost on fire
- Lamb done evenly — veg is burning
- Burning fiercely
- Burning book in a lounge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ablaze \A*blaze"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + blaze.]
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On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
--Milman.All ablaze with crimson and gold.
--Longfellow. -
In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos.
--Carlyle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire. (Early 19th century.)(R:SOED5: page=5) adv. 1 On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. (Early 19th century.) 2 Lit up brightly and with color. 3 In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
WordNet
adj. keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement; "his face all ablaze with excitement"- Bram Stoker; "he was aflame with desire" [syn: aflame, aroused, turned on(p)]
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" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), blazing, burning, flaming, on fire(p)]
resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze in autumn"; "flaming autumn leaves" [syn: flaming]
lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire" [syn: ablaze(p), inflamed, reddened]
Usage examples of "ablaze".
Two of the towers were ablaze, black smoke pouring from their arrow loops and twisting in the light wind as it rose into the sky.
He did manage to use his fire magic on a few of them, setting their shirts and hair ablaze, and that forced the rest to reconsider their attack for a time.
Even the news that the Yorktown, after quelling the fires and resuming fleet speed, had been torpedoed in a second attack, was again ablaze and listing, and might be abandoned, could be taken in stride.
Leaving the cripple ablaze, settling, and pouring volcanic black smoke from the flammable cargo, he swung around in a long approach to what looked like a big troop Carrier, by far the fattest target in sight.
Rear Admiral Henry, ablaze with gold braid, battle ribbons, and stars.
In response to his gesture, eyes now fully formed and ablaze, the two clouds of sooty vapor that had been hovering impatiently by his steel-booted feet ballooned to the size of black buffalo as they sped gleefully away from the dais to intercept the impudent, foolhardy human.
Gate again, but that memory was literally ablaze with pain and he swiftly banished it.
She whirled, her right hand raised, but before she could use the controlling ring she lay sprawled on the floor, one side of her face ablaze from the blow of a phantom hand.
Salmissra, her eyes ablaze, pointed at the prostrate Essia and snapped her fingers twice.
Aunt Pol, her splendid eyes ablaze and a fiery nimbus about her, strode through the hall.
The heavy door exploded inward, blasted into splinters, and Aunt Pol stood in the shattered doorway, her white lock ablaze and her eyes dreadful.
O Queen Rabesqurat, the haven of our voyage was Aklis, and we feared delay, seeing the fire of the mountain ablaze with expectations of us.
Beside the cushion was a vacant throne, radiant as morning in the East, ablaze with devices in gold and gems, a seat to fill the meanest soul with sensations of majesty and tempt dervishes to the sitting posture.
Behind the closed gates, I could see that the house was ablaze with light and merriment.
But the dream moved on and she saw an army marching, cities ablaze, thousands slain.