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单词 ablaze
释义

ablaze

adjective or adverb

ə-ˈblāz How to pronounce ablaze (audio)
1
: being on fire
2
: radiant with light or emotion
his face all ablaze with excitementBram Stoker

Synonyms

  • afire
  • aflame
  • alight [chiefly British]
  • blazing
  • burning
  • combusting
  • conflagrant
  • fiery
  • flaming
  • ignited
  • inflamed
  • enflamed
  • kindled
  • lit
  • lighted
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Social media is ablaze with amazingly creative uses for this AI, including writing rap lyrics, generating food recipes, and creating new brand names. Greg Orme, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023 Within days, the world was ablaze with the news that the coronavirus had a new variant of concern, which appears to be driving a dramatic surge in South Africa, providing a glimpse of where the pandemic might be headed. Andrew Meldrum, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2021 Using cloth, enamel, rope, carpet and industrial sealing compound, Dial recreated a city with buildings ablaze in the darkness between images of a tiger and a woman. Shauna Stuart | Sstuart@al.com, al, 1 Dec. 2022 Their joke set Twitter ablaze with fans voicing their deep-seated desire to know more about Kaling and Novak's relationship. Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 14 Sep. 2022 As autumn’s cooler temperatures and shorter days set the trees ablaze with color, now is an ideal time to plan a leaf-peeping road trip, hike, train ride or other excursion to take in the views. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2022 Zalmy, ablaze with curiosity about life outside his religious community, takes Jonathan, who was raised Catholic, under his wing. Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022 The Free Burma Rangers, a relief organization operating in the area, shared footage from a day earlier of houses ablaze in the village with the sound of artillery exploding nearby. Reuters, CNN, 24 Feb. 2022 According to local reports, including those from KOCO, KWTV, and KOKH, after the killing, the unnamed suspect set his sibling's lifeless body ablaze in the garage of the family's Bridge Creek home. Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2021 See More

Word History

Etymology

a- entry 1 + blaze entry 1

First Known Use

circa 1676, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

ablaze

adjective
ə-ˈblāz How to pronounce ablaze (audio)
1
: being on fire
2
: radiant with light or bright color

ablaze

adjective

1
as in burning
being on fire the entire block was ablaze by the time firefighters arrived

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • burning
  • flaming
  • blazing
  • afire
  • aflame
  • smoldering
  • ignited
  • lit
  • flickering
  • burned
  • alight
  • kindled
  • charred
  • inflamed
  • glowing
  • combusting
  • fiery
  • enflamed
  • lighted
  • burnt
  • aglow
  • conflagrant
  • live
  • scorching
  • flaring
  • searing
  • scorched
  • roasting
  • hot
  • smouldering
  • seared
  • broiling
  • sizzling
  • singed
  • scalding
  • incinerated
  • piping hot
  • red-hot

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • extinguished
  • smothered
  • choked
  • doused
  • dead
  • quenched
  • stamped (out)
  • suffocated
  • damped
  • snuffed (out)
  • dowsed
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2
as in illuminated
filled with much light that night the ballroom, ablaze with light, looked very different from the curtained room it usually was by day

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • illuminated
  • lit
  • illumined
  • alight
  • light
  • lighted
  • bright
  • brightened
  • ignited
  • lightsome
  • kindled
  • highlighted
  • shiny
  • floodlit
  • spotlighted
  • floodlighted
  • spotlit
  • sunny
  • sunlit
  • moonlit
  • sunshiny

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • blackened
  • darkened
  • dimmed
  • dark
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • unlit
  • darkling
  • darkish
  • lightless
  • sombre
  • tenebrous
  • gloomy
  • somber
  • obscured
  • pitch-dark
  • shadowy
  • pitch-black
  • pale
  • cloudy
  • gray
  • grey
  • murky
  • leaden
  • sunless
  • shadowlike
  • lightproof
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