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What does afire mean?

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Adjective
  1. On fire (often metaphorically).
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Several involve body-shaped depressions in the earth that are filled with fabric or other combustibles, set afire and left as an imprint of ash.
What had happened was a body had been placed in a dumpster, gasoline was poured into it, and it was set afire.
Cheeks empurpled, spit launching in all directions, eyes afire with outraged vanity, the Colonel will have none of your treachery.
Finally, on the day of Pentecost, it was a gaze afire with the outpouring of the Spirit.
His bellowed anti-Europe diatribes breathe the monomania that still sets the conference afire.
Crime is on the increase and the recent setting afire of a police vehicle has raised the level of crime to new heights.

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