ablaze

Definition

  • adjective: in the process of burning
  • adjective or adverb: being on fire
  • often + 'with'
  • synonyms: afire, aflame, aflicker

Examples

  • Her eyes were 'ablaze' [='blazing'] 'with' anger.

  • The valley was 'ablaze with' fall foliage.

  • Lightning set the building 'ablaze'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Thofin! Go. Go! The plan's not gonna work. These furnaces are stone cold. He's right. We've no... ...fire hot enough to set them ablaze. Have we not? I did not look to see you so easily outwitted. You have grown... ...slow and fat... ...in your dotage... (..)
    2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug