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AFLAME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does aflame mean?
• AFLAME (adjective)
The adjective AFLAME has 2 senses:
1. keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
2. lighted up by or as by fire or flame
Familiarity information: AFLAME used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
Synonyms:
Context example:
he was aflame with desire
Similar:
passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lighted up by or as by fire or flame
Synonyms:
ablaze; afire; aflame; aflare; alight; on fire
Context example:
houses on fire
Similar:
Context examples
His blood was fairly aflame, however, and he needed no such challenge.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He would have burned the "Sea Lyrics" on the spot, had his will been strong enough to set them aflame.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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