How to pronounce“aflame”in English
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Definitions of “aflame”
Often preceded by set: in or into flames; so as to be burned by fire.
“[T]hat blessed martyr, St. Thomas of Canterbury [Thomas Becket], sometime your predecessor, did withstand the unlawful requests of the prince of his time, but would still not only yield and bear with things not to be borne withal, but also set a-flame the fire already kindled— […]”
Often preceded by set.
“The sky was soft and bright, but not so gorgeous as Kenyon had seen it, a thousand times, in America; for there the western sky is wont to be set aflame with breadths and depths of color, with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to copy.”
With flames coming from it; burning, flaming, in flames, on fire.
“Workmen employed in the alcohol plant rushed out, their clothing aflames^([sic – meaning aflame]) and many groping their way, blinded by the fire.”
Having the colour of a flame.
“In autumn the trees are aflame with colour.”
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