aflame

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf Often preceded by set: in or into flames; so as to be burned by fire.

   “[T]hat blessed martyr, St. Thomas of Canterbury [Thomas Becket], sometime your predecessor, did withstand the unlawful requests of the prince of his time, but would still not only yield and bear with things not to be borne withal, but also set a-flame the fire already kindled— […]”

2. zarf In or into a colour like that of a flame.

   “The sky was soft and bright, but not so gorgeous as Kenyon had seen it, a thousand times, in America; for there the western sky is wont to be set aflame with breadths and depths of color, with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to copy.”

3. zarf In or into a state of great activity or emotion (anger, excitement, etc.).

   “He who sent (If He sent) all those hearts aflame?”

4. sıfat With flames coming from it; burning, flaming, in flames, on fire.

   “Workmen employed in the alcohol plant rushed out, their clothing aflames^([sic – meaning aflame]) and many groping their way, blinded by the fire.”

5. sıfat Having the colour of a flame.

   “In autumn the trees are aflame with colour.”

6. sıfat In a state of great activity or emotion (anger, excitement, etc.).

   “She said nothing and simply stared at him, eyes aflame.”

7. fiil Synonym of inflame (“to set (something) on fire; (figurative) to intensify or kindle (a feeling, such as appetite or passion); to intensify or kindle a feeling in (someone)”).

   “So that we might serve God, / confirmed from above, / she [the Holy Spirit] tests us with fire / and aflames us with love.”

8. fiil Chiefly in the present participle: to be in flames or on fire; to blaze, to flare up.

   “[A]s regards Prince Yusuf, when Ibn Ibrahim left him, he felt love-lowe aflaming in his heart, […]”