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Word entry · 6 letters

ablaze

Best crossword clue

"Burning fiercely"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /əˈbleɪz/Part of speech adjectiveSorted aabelzStarts with AEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2B3L4A5Z6E

Definitions

  1. lighted with red light as if with flames

Word origin

From a- (“on, in”) + blaze (“flame”).

Used in a sentence

  • 1791, The Bee, Volume 4, Short Chronicle of Events, 27 July, 1791, p. v, On entering the walls which surround the house, then all ablaze, a most dreadful conflict took place […]
  • The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water, / Bearing a torch ablaze at the prow.
  • 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.

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