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Burning vs Ablaze - What's the difference?

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Burning is a related term of ablaze.


As adjectives the difference between burning and ablaze

is that burning is so hot as to seem to burn (something) while ablaze is burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire .

As a verb burning

is .

As a noun burning

is the act by which something burns or is burned.

As an adverb ablaze is

on fire; in a blaze, gleaming .

burning

English

Verb

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    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • So hot as to seem to burn (something).
  • *{{quote-book, year=1892, author=(James Yoxall)
    • , chapter=5, title= The Lonely Pyramid , passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
  • Feeling very hot.
  • Feeling great passion.
  • Consuming; intense; inflaming; exciting; vehement; powerful.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
    • Like a young hound upon a burning scent.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something burns or is burned.
  • * 1828 , Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)
    • It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance
  • * 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
    • The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.
  • A fire.
    • The burnings continued all day.

    ablaze

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Burning fiercely; in a blaze; on fire.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport , url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15325536.stm , page= , passage=Mario Balotelli, in the headlines for accidentally setting his house ablaze with fireworks, put City on their way with goals either side of the interval as United struggled to contain the array of attacking talent in front of them.}}
  • Radiant with bright light and color.
  • * All ablaze with crimson and gold. -
  • In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
  • * The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. -

    • Derived terms

    * set the world ablaze

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • On fire; in a blaze, gleaming.
  • Lit up brightly and with color.
  • In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.

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