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# ablaze

«ablaze» in Mova's school dictionary: **burning strongly, on fire: «The barn was ablaze.»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (ablaze — after a verb)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ablaze means burning strongly, on fire: «The barn was ablaze.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#m1)

2) Ablaze with light or colour means shining very brightly: «The sky was ablaze with fireworks.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#m2)

3) Ablaze with a feeling means full of strong feeling: «eyes ablaze with anger». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In news and stories, «ablaze» describes fires (a house, a forest, a ship) and tells the reader of danger; in fire safety lessons, if a building is ablaze, get out, stay out and call the fire brigade. In descriptive writing, a garden «ablaze with colour» or a city «ablaze with lights» is beautiful. Phrases: «set ablaze», «ablaze with».

### examples

- The old barn was ablaze by the time the firefighters arrived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#x1)
- Lightning set the forest ablaze. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#x2)
- The sky was ablaze with fireworks on Bonfire Night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#x3)
- In autumn the trees are ablaze with red and gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#x4)
- Her eyes were ablaze with excitement. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#x5)
- The city was ablaze with Christmas lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#x6)
- The whole firmament was ablaze with the northern lights, and yet the darkness triumphed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/#x7)

### note

Usually after a verb: «the house was ablaze», not «an ablaze house». Say «a-BLAZE». Fire safety: never go back into a burning building.

### In the corpora

- [As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1478/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ablaze» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/ablaze/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.