ablaze

ablaze
    adj 1: keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating
           excitement; "his face all ablaze with excitement"- Bram
           Stoker; "he was aflame with desire" [syn: {ablaze},
           {aflame}, {aroused}]
    2: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or
       afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a
       night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables";
       "houses on fire" [syn: {ablaze(p)}, {afire(p)}, {aflame(p)},
       {aflare(p)}, {alight(p)}, {on fire(p)}]
    3: resembling flame in brilliance or color; "maple trees ablaze
       in autumn"
    4: lighted with red light as if with flames; "streets ablaze
       with lighted Christmas trees"; "the inflamed clouds at
       sunset"; "reddened faces around the campfire" [syn:
       {ablaze(p)}, {inflamed}, {reddened}]
    

Ablaze \A*blaze"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + blaze.]
   1. On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. --Milman.
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            All ablaze with crimson and gold.     --Longfellow.
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   2. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
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            The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to
            assist Torrijos.                      --Carlyle.
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99 Moby Thesaurus words for "ablaze":
      afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, bathed with light,
      bespangled, blazing, boiling over, breathless, brightened, burning,
      candent, candescent, candlelit, comburent, conflagrant, cordial,
      delirious, drunk, enlightened, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant,
      febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, firelit,
      flagrant, flaming, flaring, flashing, flashy, flickering, flushed,
      fulgurant, fulgurating, fuming, gaslit, glowing, guttering, hearty,
      heated, hot, ignescent, ignited, illuminated, impassioned,
      in a blaze, in a glow, in flames, incandescent, inflamed, intense,
      intoxicated, irradiate, irradiated, keen, kindled, lamplit,
      lanternlit, lighted, lightened, lit, lit up, live, lively, living,
      luminous, meteoric, moonlit, on fire, passionate, red-hot, reeking,
      scintillant, scintillating, smoking, smoldering, spangled,
      sparking, star-spangled, star-studded, starlit, steaming, steamy,
      studded, sunlit, tinseled, unextinguished, unquenched,
      unrestrained, vigorous, warm, zealous