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Aflare

//əˈflɛə// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion). not-comparable

    "1886, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), In the Clouds, Chapter 17, p. 248, the flaming base of the opposite mountain, all luridly aflare in the windy dusk"

  2. 2
    Illuminated (with something blazing or shining). not-comparable

    "[…] Old Pye Street, Peter’s Street, and Duck Lane were aflare with the coarse lights of open naphtha lamps,"

  3. 3
    Flaring (opening outward). not-comparable

    "ballet skirts aflare"

Adjective
  1. 1
    lighted up by or as by fire or flame wordnet
  2. 2
    streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air wordnet

Etymology

From a- + flare.

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