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Set ablaze   /sɛt əblˈeɪz/   Listen
Set ablaze

verb
1.
Set fire to; cause to start burning.  Synonyms: set afire, set aflame, set on fire.





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"Set ablaze" Quotes from Famous Books



... robbers' paction styled the Law To frighten honest folk, sirs, We'll set ablaze and fumigate The country with the ...
— British Socialism - An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals • J. Ellis Barker
... the hearth with tremendous violence as he spoke, so that it vanished into minute fragments, while its contents spurted about in all directions. Happily very little of it went into the fire, else the cottage would have been set ablaze. ...
— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne


Words linked to "Set ablaze" :   ignite, light, combust, set on fire, set afire, set aflame, burn


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