keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
<adj.all> his face all ablaze with excitement he was aflame with desire
lighted up by or as by fire or flame
<adj.all> forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning even the car's tires were aflame a night aflare with fireworks candles alight on the tables houses on fire
resembling flame in brilliance or color
<adj.all> maple trees ablaze in autumn
lighted with red light as if with flames
<adj.all> streets ablaze with lighted Christmas trees the inflamed clouds at sunset reddened faces around the campfire
Ablaze \A*blaze"\, adv. & a. [Pref. a- + blaze.] 1. On fire; in a blaze, gleaming. --Milman.
All ablaze with crimson and gold. --Longfellow.
2. In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. --Carlyle.
Youths set tires ablaze at the entrance to Gaza City.
Violence broke out in the Arab village of Taibe in northern Israel, where residents set tires ablaze and hurled firebombs and stones to protest the demolition Monday of 15 illegally built houses.
Shortly after the two platforms were set ablaze, a 154-foot Iranian gunboat, the Joshan, approached the U.S. ships, the Pentagon said.
Iran attacked a Japanese-owned gas tanker off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, setting the vessel ablaze.
Gangs of youths roaming the streets later set two cars ablaze and hurled rocks through windows at the Justice Ministry and the American Cultural Center, a U.S. Embassy official said on condition of anonymity.
The following year, communal riots set large swatches of the country ablaze.
It had come upon another Polish ship _ Boleslaw Krzywousty _ stranded and ablaze 50 miles from Massawa on the Eritrean coast.
A police spokesman, who cannot be identified under standing regulations, said a military hospital in Badaro controlled by Aoun was severely damaged by a rocket barrage that set it ablaze.
The country is producing 250,000 barrels a day of oil, he said, and 575 of the roughly 700 wells set ablaze when Iraqi forces retreated in February have been extinguished.
Fire Chief Edward Higgins said several couches were set ablaze, and the stove was turned on with flammable items placed on top of it.
Streets were littered with the burned-out, blackened hulks of dozens of cars set ablaze by rocket-propelled grenades in the fighting.
Four people including a teen-ager set themselves ablaze Monday in growing violence over the government's plan to set aside nearly half of its jobs for low-caste Hindus.
The mob also set ablaze a shop owned by a Tamil.
The fire started in the mine Friday after gas lamps used for lighting set ablaze wooden tunnel supports on the second level, Robles said.
Inside the base on Monday, the commandos were confined to the red brick officers club and several other buildings as soldiers blasted their positions with tank and mortar fire, setting the buildings ablaze.
Press Trust and United News of India, both news agencies, said five students poisoned themselves and one set himself ablaze.
It was an appallingly difficult job.' The oil wells were ablaze, belching out dense black smoke, fumes and hot oil droplets.
Several tires were set ablaze, and at least two police vans were stoned, Arab witnesses said.
An oil shale mine in northeastern Estonia has been ablaze for more than a month and authorities believe it will take another week to extinguish, a newspaper reported.
"In a few minutes the whole building was ablaze.
In New Delhi, a student set himself ablaze and died.
Shellfire blanketed Beirut on Friday, smashing apartments, setting woodlands ablaze and gutting the hilltop Casino de Liban, a relic of the days when this devastated city was the playground of the Middle East.
Lloyds of London reported that in the Sirri Island attack, a moored storage tanker was hit and set ablaze.
Six people died and more than 90 were injured; 65 houses and more than 20 cars were set ablaze, it said.
He denied earlier reports that a car, which was set ablaze by the blast, had contained the explosives.
The liquid landed on the floor and wall beneath the painting, and the man then tossed a lighted match to set it ablaze, Navarro said. He said the flames did not reach the painting.
A car owned by KTBS-TV was set ablaze, while a fire truck that arrived to fight the blazes was attacked by protesters, who beat it with bats and clubs after firefighters abandoned the vehicle, according to reporters at the scene.
Strikers demanding democracy today halted all train and air service in the capital, and rioting prisoners set several buildings ablaze in Rangoon's jail.
Its presence is a sign of Kuwait's desperate attempt to speed up what has been an almost all-American effort to stem the colossal hemorrhage from its vast oil fields set ablaze by the Iraqis in February.
In the spring, the station's lush green lawn is ablaze with 4,000 tulips, daffodils and crocuses.