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• s  keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
  he was aflame with desire
• s  lighted up by or as by fire or flame
  even the car's tires were aflame

• They hurled bottles filled with gasoline, setting coaches aflame.
• The Museum of Modern Art was aflame with Van Goghs, Cezannes, Toulouse-Lautrecs.
• The video ends with the car set aflame and the cameraman apparently beaten unconscious.

• ablaze
• aroused
• afire
• aflare
• alight
• on fire

News & Articles

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• Dan Savage: By the Book
  The author, most recently, of “American Savage” keeps a copy of the “Anita Bryant Family Cookbook” on his shelves. Also: “Aflame for God,” a biography of Jerry Falwell.
  June 27, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Raila Odinga in San Francisco Chronicle
  Presidential elections ...... will settle this issue once and for all,Odinga said. "Kenya is aflame, and there'll be no peace in Kenya until this matter is settled satisfactorily."
• Alexis de Tocqueville in BYU Newsnet
  After his stay in America during the 1830s, French essayist and philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius....
• Leon Wieseltier in Toronto Star
  The world is aflame and we have been pondering the knocked-up daughter of a pert and uncannily confident Alaskan mediocrity who was elevated to a national ticket for the purpose of changing the conversation,Leon Wieseltier, veteran New...