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Synonyms for ablaze
Synonyms for ablaze: alight, aroused and inflamed. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for ablaze
Interchangeable with ablaze, one per sense
Audited under ablaze's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one ablaze carries in that sense.
- alightadjective, in the sense "lighted up by or as by fire or flame"
- arousedadjective, in the sense "keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name ablaze as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- inflamedinflamed is an adjective in the sense "lighted with red light as if with flames"
two of these come from ablaze's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
lighted up by or as by fire or flame
Lightning left the dry hillside ablaze by midnight.
The true synonym
alight
Same sentence, swapped: Lightning left the dry hillside alight by midnight.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- aroused
- reddened
- steamy
keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement
His face all ablaze with excitement.
The true synonym
aroused
Same sentence, swapped: His face all aroused with excitement.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- alight
- reddened
- illuminated
Where ablaze turns up in the game
ablaze is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where ablaze is the trap
Play ablaze
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ablaze reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ablaze carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.