Set On Fire

Definition: Set On Fire

Set On Fire

Verb

1. Set fire to; cause to start burning; "Lightening set fire to the forest.".

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Synonyms: Set On Fire

Calefaction

Fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle, relume; fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire; make a bonfire of.

Excitation

Verb: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.

Crosswords: Set On Fire

I have never heard of such a Christmas: sex, and drugs, and, and, and, and women being set on fire. (The Ref; writing credit: Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese. Starring Denis Leary as Gus, Judy Davis as Caroline Chasseur and Kevin Spacey as Lloyd Chasseur.)

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Crowd of people in the distance on their way to a lumber yard, where George and William Metcalf, Americans, were killed and the yard set on fire, during miners' strike, Cananea, Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crowd around the hospital, which is also the American consulate, in Cananea, Mexico, where George and William Metcalf, Americans, were killed and the lumber yard set on fire during miners' strike. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Several stars had already been set on fire by this monster, who, besides, had claws like a tiger

It was set on fire by mischievous boys, one Election night, if I do not mistake

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Civil Liberties

Antigua and Barbuda

In October the four structures were set on fire by unknown individuals, leading to police intervention and several arrests. (references)

Nepal

Some students and teachers at schools attempting to defy the ban reported threats and intimidation from the Maoists, and two buses from one private school were set on fire. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

An arsonist destroyed an opposition newspaper; a fire of suspicious origin badly damaged the Ministry of Information; and the UPP's outdoor convention site mysteriously was set on fire. (references)

Human Rights

India

His legs allegedly had been set on fire and the skin peeled off by the soldiers. (references)

Nigeria

They reportedly stabbed them with machetes and knives as bystanders cheered; the victims' bodies then were set on fire. (references)

Benin

In April in Bante sub-prefecture, newspapers reported that "an enraged mob" set on fire and burned to death a suspected sorcerer and an accused thug. (references)

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Expression using "set on fire": To set on fire. Additional references.

Albanian

vë në zjarr (cook, incendiarism, set fire), ndez (activate, burn, enkindle, fire, fire up, foment, heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, light, make the fire, set fire, set light to, switch on, turn on), djeg (bake, bite, burn, burn down, carbonate, carbonize, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, grill, gut, incinerate, scald, sting). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أضرم النار (impinge, kindle, spit). (various references)

Basque

piztu (light to, set on fire to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подпалвам (burn up, ignite, set fire to). (various references)

Czech

zapálit (blow in, electrify, enkindle, fire, ignite, kindle, light, set fire, set fire to). (various references)

Finnish

sytyttää (fire, ignite, kindle set fire to, light). (various references)

French

mettre le feu (set fire), enflammer. (various references)

German

in Brand stecken (set smth. ablaze, to set on fire), in Brand setzen (to set on fire). (various references)

Greek 

πυρπολώ (ignite). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"עלות באש, ל�"עביר באש (burn), ל�"צית (fire, ignite, kindle, light, set fire to, spark). (various references)

Hungarian

felgyújt (burn down, set fire to, spark, to burn down, to fire, to spark, to turn on). (various references)

Indonesian

membakar (bake, burn, inflame), bakar (burn, roasted). (various references)

Italian

infiammare (become inflamed, fire, heat, ignite, inflame, kindle, take fire), incendiare (burn, catch fire, fire, set fire to). (various references)

Manx

foaddey (arson, burn, burn up, burning, ignite, ignition, incendiarism, kindle, light, switch on), cur seose (abdication, carry forward, disclaim, drop off, extradite, extradition, fit on, fix, flush, hang, increase, move, pitch, postulate, put up, relinquish, relinquishment, represent, retire, surrender). (various references)

Occitan

alucar (light). (various references)

Pig Latin

etsay onay irefay.(various references)

Russian 

поджечь (set fire), поджигать (set fire). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapaliti (get inflamed, ignite, kindle, light, set fire, set fire to). (various references)

Spanish

prender fuego a (set fire to), incendiar (burn down, fire, ignite, set fire to). (various references)

Swedish

tutta på (set fire to). (various references)

Turkish

yakmak (bite, burn, cauterize, fire, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, light, light up, put on, scathe, scorch, sear, turn on), tutuşturmak (deflagrate, enkindle, fire, ignite, kindle), ateşe vermek (couse a panic, set fire, set fire to). (various references)

Ukrainian

підпалювати (set fire to). (various references)

accendam, accendantur, accendebant, accendens, accendentes, accendere, accenderent, accenderunt, accendet, accendetur, accendimus, accendit, accendunt, accensa, accensi, accensis, accenso, accensus, accensusque, extermino, exuro, exussum, exuro; exussum, flamma, flammantem, flammantis, flammas, incendere, inflammabatur, inflammabit, inflammat, inflammata, inflammatio, inflammatum, inflammaverunt, inflammavit, succendam, succendatur, succendebat, succendendum, succendens, succendent, succendentes, succendentur, succenderant, succendere, succenderetur, succenderunt, succendes, succendet, succendetis, succendetur, succendi, succendimus, succendisti, succendistis, succendit, succendite, succenditque, succenditur, succendunt, succenduntur, succensa, succensae, succensam, succensi, succensionis, succensis, succensum, succensus. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: firestone.

-1 letter: ferniest, infester, oneriest, serotine, softener.

-2 letters: entires, entries, estrone, forints, forties, frontes, norites, oestrin, oftener, orients, refines, retines, snifter, stonier, trienes.

-3 letters: enserf, enters, entire, eosine, estrin, feints, ferine, fester, fetors, finest, forest, forint, fortes, fortis, foster, freest, frisee, fronts, inerts, infers, infest, insert, inters, intros, irones, nereis, nester, nestor, niters, nitres, nitros.

+1 letter: firestones, fromenties, refections, renotifies.

+2 letters: deforesting, federations, fictioneers, interferons, perfections, prenotifies, reflections, reforesting.

+3 letters: amentiferous, counterfeits, counterfires, effronteries, fenestration, festooneries, fetoproteins, frontiersmen, frontispiece, frostinesses, frothinesses, mifepristone, overinflates, reinfections.

+4 letters: argentiferous, confectioners, deforestation, fenestrations, fermentations, frontispieces, frontogenesis, garnetiferous, imperfections, inferiorities, mifepristones, nonesterified, perfectionism, perfectionist, reafforesting, redefinitions, reforestation, reinfestation, retroflexions, superfetation.

+5 letters: confederations, counterfeiters, defenestration, deforestations, electrofishing, esterification, ferromagnetism, fictioneerings, foreshortening, frequentations, interferograms, nonforfeitures, overidentifies, perfectionisms, perfectionists, profitableness, reforestations, refractoriness, refrigerations, reinfestations, reinforcements, retroflections, sportfishermen, superconfident, superfetations, superinfection.