ablaze

[ uh-bleyz ]

/ əˈbleɪz /

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adjective

burning; on fire: They set the logs ablaze.

gleaming with bright lights, bold colors, etc.

excited; eager; zealous; ardent.

very angry.

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Origin of ablaze

1800–10; a-¹ + blaze¹; compare Middle English on blase

Words nearby ablaze

ablation, ablative, ablative absolute, ablator, ablaut, ablaze, able, able-bodied, able-bodied seaman, abled, ableism

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How to use ablaze in a sentence

Three workers were injured, multiple vehicles were set ablaze, and a home suffered minor damage after an explosion occurred while utility workers were doing planned maintenance on a gas line in Springfield on Wednesday, fire and gas officials said.
Multiple people injured, vehicles catch fire after small explosion in Springfield area|Justin Jouvenal|February 3, 2021|Washington Post
One of the men in the vehicle, Ivan Hunter, 23, has since been indicted for allegedly using an assault rifle to shoot up a police precinct in Minneapolis and helping to set the building ablaze.
The Boogaloo Bois Have Guns, Criminal Records and Military Training. Now They Want to Overthrow the Government.|by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Lila Hassan and Karim Hajj, FRONTLINE|February 1, 2021|ProPublica
In other words, money won’t matter in a world where climate change is unchecked, where continents are ablaze, glaciers are melting, and rainforests are disappearing.
How company leaders can take an active role on climate change|Clay Wilkes|January 21, 2021|Quartz
Small corners of the internet are ablaze with the news that Apple has significantly ramped up its search bot activity.
Could Apple build a search engine that competes with Google?|By Hamza Mudassir/The Conversation|December 15, 2020|Popular-Science

Pipelines exploded with the force of bombs, setting homes ablaze in Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts, on the evening of September 13, 2018.
Gas explosions keep killing people, and the US government won’t step in|By Jeremy Deaton/Nexus Media News|September 29, 2020|Popular-Science
When she returned an hour later, the lights were again ablaze.
Would You Stay in Lizzie Borden’s Ax-Murder House?|Nina Strochlic|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Social media is ablaze over the Ray Rice video, wondering why his future wife stayed.
I Was Pregnant When He Hit Me. Here's #WhyIStayed.|Anonymous|September 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But not this year: the Middle East is ablaze in conflict, the Russians are busy destabilizing Ukraine.
Hey, Eric Holder: Voter ID Isn't Stuck in 1965|Ron Christie|August 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Big scary Transformer-like robots with heads ablaze that frighten the kids back across the treacherous desert?
The So-Called Immigration Border Crisis Is Neither|Sally Kohn|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Internet was ablaze Monday with the news of a computer passing the infamous Turing test—but not so fast.
The AI That Wasn’t: Why ‘Eugene Goostman’ Didn’t Pass the Turing Test|Elizabeth Lopatto|June 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Within a week all Missouri will be ablaze, and the hottest place for Yankees in all Christendom.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Every light in the hall was ablaze; every lamp turned as high as it could be without smoking the chimney or threatening explosion.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
Bruder Kalkmann turned the handle and they entered a room ablaze with light and full of people.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
In the evening when the electric lights were ablaze the Norwood lawns were a pretty sight 112 indeed.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
I can see her now, erect and haughty, facing me across the dinner-table, her eyes ablaze with indignation.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman

British Dictionary definitions for ablaze

ablaze

/ (əˈbleɪz) /

adjective, adverb (postpositive)

on fire; burning

brightly illuminated

emotionally aroused

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