ablaze
/əˈbleɪz/
ablaze adjective: burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
Adjective
ablaze (comparative more ablaze, superlative most ablaze)
- Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
- On entering the walls which surround the house, then all ablaze, a most dreadful conflict took place […]1791, The Bee, Volume 4, Short Chronicle of Events, 27 July, 1791, p. v
- The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water, / Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.1881, Walt Whitman, “The Torch”, in Leaves of Grass, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 305
- Radiant with bright light and color.
- The Heav’ns are all a-blaze, the face of night
Is cover’d with a sanguine dreadful light:1716, John Gay, Trivia, 3rd edition, London: Bernard Lintot, published 1730, Book 3, p. 64 - All ablaze with crimson and gold.1872, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus: A Mystery
- The Heav’ns are all a-blaze, the face of night
- In a state of glowing excitement, ardent desire, or other strong emotion.
- And this Fire of your Eyes easily strikes those of your Auditors, who have theirs constantly fixt upon yours; and it must needs set them a-blaze too upon the same Resentment and Passion.c. 1680, uncredited translator, An Essay upon the Action of an Orator by Michel Le Faucheur, London: Nicholas Cox, pp. 184-185
- The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos.1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling
Adverb
ablaze (comparative more ablaze, superlative most ablaze)
ablaze meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
ablaze in Hindi
- on fire
- प्रज्वलित prajvalit
ablaze in Tamil
- கொழுந்து விட்டு, சுடர்விட்டு, தீப்பற்றிய, ஆற்றல், ஆர்வம் மிகுந்த
ablaze in Urdu
- جلتا ہوا, روشن, شعلہ زن, دھکتا ہوا, بھڑکتا ہوا
ablaze in Bengali
- দাউদাউ করে জ্বলছে এমন
More languagesFewer languages
- ablaze in Malayalam
- കത്തുന്ന, വൈകാരികമായി ഇളകിമറിഞ്ഞ, ജ്വലിക്കുന്ന
- ablaze in Kannada
- ಉರಿಯುತ್ತ, ಪ್ರಜ್ವಲಿಸುತ್ತ, ಹೊಳೆಯುತ್ತ, ಮಿರುಗುತ್ತ
- ablaze in Arabic
- مُشْتَعِل muštaʕil
- ablaze in Persian
- شعلهور šo'le-var, فروزان fruzân
Examples of ablaze in a sentence
- So Wang and Tiger’s men rushed into such houses as were not too ablaze and they began to drag out booty of silken pieces and yards of cloth and garments and anything they could carry.1932, Pearl S. Buck, chapter 13, in Sons, Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, published 1992, pages 128-129:
- She loved this hour when the lights were coming up in the causeway: white and blue and orange lights and the hotels and coloured adverts ablaze but not yet effective in the pale twilight.1961, Cyprian Ekwensi, chapter 3, in Jagua Nana, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, published 1969, page 13:
- Autumn is a lovely time to visit as the tree cover near the line is ablaze with colour.2021 July 28, Paul Bigland, “Calder line captures picturesque Pennines”, in RAIL, number 936, page 69:
- […] Dawit, glorious and fearless, charging at the enemy, […] his eyes ablaze with a hatred so pure that for a moment, the ascaro draws back before he lifts his weapon and aims.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Edinburgh: Canongate:
Synonyms of ablaze
Forms of ablaze
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more ablaze |
| superlative | most ablaze |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more ablaze |
| superlative | most ablaze |
Origin of ablaze
From a- (“on, in”) + blaze (“flame”).
Words formed from ablaze
Words that rhyme with ablaze
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- amaze
- appraise
- craze
- fraise
- gaze
- phrase
- mayonnaise
- braise
- chaise
- lase
- liaise
- malaise
- maze
- peise
- baize
- bayes
- bolognese
- braize
- braze
- days
- daze
- emprise
- laze
- overglaze
- praise
- reyse
- ukase
- upraise
- abbes
- abrase
- acraze
- affrays
- arrays
- assays
- bays
- bayze
- blays
- bordelaise
- borrowing days
- brays
- cays
- chays
- clays
- conveys
- crays
- crème anglaise
- decays
- delays
Questions about ablaze
- What does ablaze mean?
- Ablaze means burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
- What is ablaze in Hindi?
- Ablaze in Hindi is प्रज्वलित (prajvalit). See Ablaze meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use ablaze in a sentence?
- So Wang and Tiger’s men rushed into such houses as were not too ablaze and they began to drag out booty of silken pieces and yards of cloth and garments and anything they could carry.
- What part of speech is ablaze?
- Ablaze can be an adjective or an adverb.
- How do you pronounce ablaze?
- Ablaze is pronounced /əˈbleɪz/ (US).
Words near ablaze in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ablaze (page history and authors); ablaze (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ablaze (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ablaze (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ablaze (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ablaze (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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