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/əblˈeɪz/ Listen

adverb

Ablaze adv., adj.

On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. "All ablaze with crimson and gold."

In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. "The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos."

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Etymology of 'Ablaze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ablaze" Quotes from Famous Books

... from a dream. Her face was white and her eyes were ablaze with excitement. She put the manuscript back in the drawer, went into the dining-room and made a pretence of dining. But very soon she was back again in the study. She sat down under a lamp by the fire and ...

— Tongues of Conscience • Robert Smythe Hichens

... Inquisitor France is all ablaze, the low countries in revolt, Calvin is stirring up all Europe; the king has too much business on his hands to worry himself about the loss of a ship. This new invention and the Reformation would have been too much at one time for the world! Now ...

— The Resources of Quinola • Honore de Balzac

... rifles, but Coutlass had his and was on the track ahead of us, his eye a ghastly sight from the guard's overnight attentions, his face the gruesome color of the man who has eaten and drunk too much, but his undamaged eye ablaze, and nothing whatever the matter ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

... Ambassador that the British could not be so base as not to stand by their friends if Germany attacked them without good reason. All through that night the staff of the Foreign Office were wonderfully cheered up in their own work by looking across the famous Horse Guards Parade at the Admiralty, which was ablaze with lights from roof to cellar. The usual way, after the Royal Review that ended the big fleet manoeuvres for the year, was to "demobilize" ships that had been specially "mobilized" (made ready for the front) by adding ...

— Flag and Fleet - How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas • William Wood

... stood Kagig, with a lantern in his right hand thrust forward into the room. His eyes were ablaze with excitement, and between black beard and mustache his teeth showed in a grin mixed of scorn ...

— The Eye of Zeitoon • Talbot Mundy

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