intransitive. To burn, be burnt, or consumed. Also, To be on fire. literal and figurative.

figurative. Of persons, of the heart, etc.: To be on fire (with desire, lust, passion, wrath); to glow, pant. Often followed by infinitive of…

figurative. To ‘boil’ with passion. (Cf. walling, adj.1) Obsolete.

intransitive. To burn with the fervour of devotion, excitement, or passion: said of persons and their feelings. to blaze up: to ‘fire up’ in wrath.

figurative.

figurative. Said of passions, persons under the influence of passion, their words, etc. Also to boil over. Cf. the blood boils at sense 10b.

transferred. figurative. Of a person: To burn with strong passion or emotion. Also reflexive in same sense.

Said of passion, emotion, etc.: To burn, glow, be ardent.

To burn with the fervour of emotion or passion. Said of persons and their feelings.