be ablaze with light
1ablaze — [[t]əble͟ɪz[/t]] 1) ADJ: v n ADJ, v link ADJ Something that is ablaze is burning very fiercely. Shops, houses, and vehicles were set ablaze. 2) ADJ: v link ADJ, usu ADJ with n If a place is ablaze with lights or colours, it is very bright because …
2ablaze — /əˈbleɪz / (say uh blayz) adjective (in predicative use) 1. on fire. 2. gleaming as if on fire: ablaze with light. 3. charged with emotion: ablaze with anger; ablaze with enthusiasm …
3ablaze — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ set sth ▪ Truck after truck was set ablaze as the fire spread. ADVERB ▪ well (BrE) ▪ …
4ablaze — adjective 1) several vehicles were ablaze Syn: on fire, alight, aflame, in flames, flaming, burning, fiery, blazing; literary afire, igneous 2) every window was ablaze with light Syn: lit up, alight …
5light — [adj1] illuminated ablaze, aglow, bright, brilliant, burnished, clear, cloudless, flashing, fluorescent, glossy, glowing, lambent, lucent, luminous, lustrous, phosphorescent, polished, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, rich, scintillant, shining,… …
6light — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. airy (see levity); frivolous, jesting, jocular, lightsome; giddy, dizzy, flighty; wanton; nimble, agile; flippant, pert, insouciant; humorous; trivial. See cheerfulness, unimportance, impurity,… …
7ablaze — adjective 1 be ablaze to be burning with a lot of flames, often causing serious damage: Within minutes the whole house was ablaze. | set sth ablaze (=make something burn a lot): A tanker was set ablaze in the gunboat attack. 2 filled with a lot… …
8ablaze — adjective or adverb Date: 1801 1. being on fire 2. radiant with light or emotion < his face all ablaze with excitement Bram Stoker > …
9ablaze — Synonyms and related words: afire, aflame, aflicker, aglow, alight, ardent, bathed with light, bespangled, blazing, boiling over, breathless, brightened, burning, candent, candescent, candlelit, comburent, conflagrant, cordial, delirious, drunk,… …
10ablaze — a|blaze [ ə bleız ] adjective never before noun 1. ) burning with a lot of flames: set something ablaze (=start something burning): Within minutes, the whole building had been set ablaze. 2. ) LITERARY bright and full of light or color 3. )… …
