Afire vs Raging - What's the difference?
afire | raging | Related terms |
on fire
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, year_published=2010
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, editor=
, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
, title=The Chessmen of Mars
, chapter=
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging . No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
A display of rage.
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Afire is a related term of raging.
As adjectives the difference between afire and raging
is that afire is on fire while raging is volatile, very active or unpredictable.As a verb raging is
.As a noun raging is
a display of rage.afire
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=… if I were a young man I should doubtless be willing to set all Barsoom afire to win you,… }}
Anagrams
* * * *raging
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- To quell the ragings of his Father's ire, / And save a guilty world from quenchless fire!