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say it: uh-FLAYM
aflame is an adjective meaning "keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement". It carries 2 recorded senses.
keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
“his face all ablaze with excitement”
“he was aflame with desire”
lighted up by or as by fire or flame
“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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aflame come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.