aflare

From a- +‎ flare.

• IPA^(key): /əˈflɛɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)

aflare (not comparable)

1. Flaring (blazing or shining brightly or suddenly; also figuratively, of a strong emotion).

   Synonyms: ablaze, afire, aflame, alight

   • 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

   • 1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Letting in the Jungle”, in The Second Jungle Book‎, London: Macmillan, page 59:

     Ho! Get to lair! The sun’s aflare / Behind the breathing grass:

   • 1919, Stella Benson, chapter 7, in Living Alone‎, London: Macmillan, published 2020, page 184:

     [The dragon] kindly breathed out a little flame, which set the packet aflare for a moment.

   • 1988, Jory Sherman, chapter 4, in Horne’s Law‎, New York: Walker and Company, page 30:

     […] he had not wanted to see the man when perhaps his blood was running hot and his temper aflare.

2. Illuminated (with something blazing or shining).
   • 1897, Hall Caine, The Christian‎, London: Heinemann, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 331:

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

   • 1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers‎, New York: George H. Doran, Part 6, p. 402:

     He used to tell me how you two used to go down to the harbor and watch the big liners come in at night, all aflare with lights through the Golden Gate.

   • 1968, Michael Moorcock, “The Dreaming City”, in The Stealer of Souls and Other Stories‎, London: Mayflower Books, page 19:

     […] at last they reached a corridor which was aflare with dancing torchlight.

3. Flaring (opening outward).
   • 1921, Edna Ferber, chapter 7, in The Girls‎, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 129:

     ballet skirts aflare

   • 1960, Vassar Miller, “Return”, in Wage War on Silence‎, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, page 58:

     To balance like a bird with wings aflare,

   • 1983, Ahdaf Soueif, Aisha, London: Black Swan, published 1985, page 163:

     The black horse paced slowly out into the open, neck arched, nostrils aflare, eyes rolling.

• rafale

From afla +‎ -re.

aflare f (plural aflări)

1. discovery, find