Afire vs Bonfire - What's the difference?
afire | bonfire |
on fire
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, year=1922
, year_published=2010
, edition=HTML
, editor=
, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
, title=The Chessmen of Mars
, chapter=
(obsolete) A fire in which bones were burned.
A fire to burn unwanted or disreputable items or people: proscribed books, heretics etc.
A large, controlled outdoor fire, as a signal or to celebrate something.
As an adjective afire
is on fire.As a noun bonfire is
(obsolete) a fire in which bones were burned.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,… }}