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aflame

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aflame ˈfleɪm/ adjective
aflame
ˈfleɪm/
adjective
Learner's definition of AFLAME
not used before a noun
: burning : on fire燃烧着;着火了
often used figuratively常用作比喻

— aflame

adverb
BNC: 36531 COCA: 25870

aflame

adjective or adverb

: afire

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In the off-the-grid community of Last Chance, some people received reverse-911 landline calls after dark—but by then houses were aflame, and one man perished. Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022 Soon the camera swerves to a television screen, where the Twin Towers are aflame. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 9 June 2022 Cybersecurity Twitter was recently aflame when ransomware groups sent out phishing attacks from compromised Exchange servers, pointing to malware hosted on OneDrive. Ryan Kalember, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2021 Tuesday morning, trees were still aflame and a flank of the fire was moving largely unchecked into the Desolation Wilderness. Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2021 In 2014, as tensions were aflame in Ferguson, Mo., after the shooting of Michael Brown, then-private citizen Donald Trump took to Twitter to mock the President. Philip Elliott, Time, 9 July 2021 Governments have spoken out, protests have taken place, social media is aflame. New York Times, 14 May 2021 Twitter was practically aflame with reactions during both the East and West Coast airings of the special on Sunday. Brian Stelter, CNN, 8 Mar. 2021 Demonstrators rocked a police van, set it ablaze, scrawled graffiti across its charred body and set it aflame again as officers retreated. Sudhin Thanawala, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2020 See More

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of aflame was in the 15th century
BNC: 36531 COCA: 25870

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