(adv. & a.) In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(2) Ten days after the consulate was stormed, thousands of Benghazi residents, some carrying American flags and placards mourning Stevens, stormed the base of Sharia, setting it ablaze.
(3) The epic struggle to keep Greece solvent and in the eurozone intensified on Saturday night amid signs of a looming crisis within the anti-austerity government that took Europe ablaze barely three months ago.
(4) In the western port of Izmir, protesters threw fire bombs at the offices of the ruling AK party and television footage showed part of the building ablaze.
(5) At the Green, where a local supermarket was set ablaze on Monday night, police kept the volunteers behind a cordon for fear of falling material from the building.
(6) Darkness has descended across Washington; but Frazier's hotel room is ablaze with light.
(7) Glasgow, June 2007 A Jeep loaded with petrol was driven into Glasgow airport and set ablaze.
(8) There are cars and buildings ablaze and the threat of violence.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tents set ablaze at North Dakota pipeline protest campsite “The thing about the No DAPL movement is that it’s everywhere,” Fielder said.
(10) By the end of the afternoon, dozens of cars were ablaze.
(11) Shell has scooped and dumped the oil inside pits and set them ablaze, incinerating local farmland .
(12) Rioters had smashed windows to loot a branch of Timpsons before setting it ablaze.
(13) 6.4.1994 Emmerdale ablaze When someone points to a box of fireworks and says, "They should be in the cellar", you know the whole place is about to go up in a dazzling racket of rockets.
(14) By the time the violence finally waned nearly three weeks later, 9,000 cars had been set ablaze in 250 towns and cities from Paris to Marseille, Toulouse to Rennes, Bordeaux to Strasbourg.
(15) The central question is what Modi as chief minister of Gujarat did or didn't do in the anti-Muslim violence that erupted in his state in February 2002, after a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was set ablaze and around 60 passengers died.
(16) The critic Kenneth Tynan was entranced, describing her as being "ablaze like a diamond in a mine".
(17) The 164ft (50 metre) ghost ship survived an initial barrage of 25mm shells that left it ablaze but still afloat.
(18) Dozens of militants arrived by motorised canoe at a fishing village on the shores of Lake Chad early on Friday morning, setting houses ablaze and attacking a police station.
(19) Limited-edition, museum-quality prints, some burned on the edges – they must have tried to set the house ablaze – some soiled with water and mud.
(20) In what appeared to be a well-organised plan, young protesters armed with petrol bombs and wearing masks, set buildings ablaze as police fired stun guns and rounds of teargas in retaliation.
Aroused
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Arouse
Example Sentences:
(1) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
(2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(3) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
(4) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
(5) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(6) The average vlaues of the correlation coefficients were found to increase from arousal through slow synchronized sleep (S sleep), reaching the highest value in REM sleep.
(7) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
(8) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
(9) The auditory threshold for arousal (1,500-Hz tone beginning at 30 dB) was also tested before and after UA lidocaine.
(10) The lower phasic reactivity in the MBD group and the effects of stimulant drugs on arousal indices confirm earlier reports.
(11) The data support the hypothesis that the learning decrement found among older men is not simply a manifestation of structural change in the central nervous system but is, at least in part, associated with the heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system that accompanies the learning task.
(12) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
(13) These results support the hypothesis that amphetamine-induced stereotyped behavior functions to reduce stress or arousal and additionally suggest that this effect is largely independent of underlying dopaminergic mechanisms.
(14) Neuroticism was found to correlate with all the premenstrual MDQ scores except the positive aspect of increased arousal, with negative affect at both menstrual and intermenstrual phases, with menstrual pain and with intermenstrual concentration.
(15) All the present evidence suggests that the local vaginal release of VIP induces the vaginal changes of arousal.
(16) Attention to the hazards of asbestos has aroused concern among many healthy persons who have been exposed at some time to one of the world's most versatile materials.
(17) The suspicion of a Zollinger-Ellison-syndrome is aroused by therapy-resistent ulcers, which in every third person are associated with a diarrhoea, by recidivations of ulcer after gastric operations and by a large basal secretion of acid.
(18) We call RSD with these properties arousal-type RSD.
(19) The presence of cardiovascular hyperreactivity together with the absence of noncardiovascular hyperreactivity in HT indicates heightened SNS-activity specific to the cardiovascular system and not part of generalized SNS-arousal.
(20) In this study, therefore, we measured hypercapnic ventilatory responsiveness (HCVR) and spirometry in 13 healthy male subjects (18 to 30 yr of age) after two consecutive nights of severe sleep fragmentation (arousal to an auditory stimulus after each minute of sleep) and compared the results with those obtained in the same subjects after normal sleep.