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afire

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1. afire - Adjective

2. afire - Adverb

4. afire - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

On fire.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. José Martí

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. Anne Rice

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages. Cyrano de Bergerac

My veins are afire with music, Her eyes have kissed me, my body is turned to light; I shall dream to her secret heart tonight... Conrad Aiken

What harm have the trees done them?” he said. "Must they punish the grass for their own faults? Men are savages, who would set a land afire because they have a quarrel with other men. Ursula K. Le Guin

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