adjective [notbeforenoun] (literary)
1 burning; on fire:
The whole building was soon aflame.
2 full of bright colours and lights:
The woods were aflame with autumn colours.
3 showing excitement or embarrassment:
eyes / cheeks aflame
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for aflame is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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