Synonyms for set on fire
set on fire

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1. set on fireverb

   To cause to begin to burn.

   Synonyms:
   set fire to, fire, set aflame, ignite, set ablaze, set alight, set afire

2. set on fireverb

   Synonyms:
   inflame, excite, ignite, rouse

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1. set on fire

   To burn is to subject to the action of fire, or of intense heat so as to effect either partial change or complete combustion; as, to burn wood in the fire; to burn one's hand on a hot stove; the sun burns the face. One brands with a hot iron, but cauterizes with some corrosive substance, as silver nitrate. Cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat. To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use. To kindle is to set on fire, as if with a candle; ignite is the more learned and scientific word for the same thing, extending even to the heating of metals to a state of incandescence without burning. To scorch and to singe are superficial, and to char usually so. Both kindle and burn have an extensive figurative use; as, to kindle strife; to burn with wrath, love, devotion, curiosity. Compare LIGHT.

   Synonyms:
   blaze, brand, burn, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, singe

   Antonyms:
   cool, extinguish, put out, smother, stifle, subdue

   Preposition:
   To burn in the fire, burn with fire; burn to the ground, burn to ashes; burn through the skin, or the roof; burn into the soil, etc.

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1. set ablaze, set aflame, set on fire, set afireverb

   set fire to; cause to start burning

   "Lightening set fire to the forest"

   Synonyms:
   set aflame, set ablaze, set afire

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1. set on fire

   Synonyms:
   inflame, kindle, ignite, set fire to

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1. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   That’s easier to understand, do you think people should die because they can’t afford insulin? Do you think that fossil fuel CEOs should decide whether the planet gets set on fire? Me neither.

2. Wilfredo Ruiz:

   The Florida Muslim Community is suffering an unprecedented number of hate crimes, multiple mosques and Islamic institutions have been broken into, vandalized and even set on fire.

3. Governor Gretchen Whitmer:

   For example, users have called for certain female, congressional leaders from my state to be 'burned and raped,' needing of a 'bullet between her eyes,' or instead, just 'set ... on fire.

4. Cristina Baker:

   I came in one way and left that room a completely different person. My heart was set on fire. I felt free. I wanted to turn my life around. From there, I went through a process of healing. It took a few months to get off the drugs, but I was ready to be free from it all – the drugs, the alcohol, all the things I was doing that were hurting me and others. I just felt like God was breaking the chains one by one.

5. Cory Booker:

   This is one of those instances where the house was set on fire and you claimed responsibility for those laws. And you can't just now come out with a plan to put out that fire.