set on fire :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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Verbs (4)

set ablaze, set aflame, set on fire, set afire

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

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Fuzzynyms (15)

flame

v. be in flames or aflame; "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"

blaze

v. indicate by marking trees with blazes; "blaze a trail"

flare, flame up, blaze up, burn up

v. burn brightly; "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity"

smolder, smoulder

v. burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire"

burn, glow

v. shine intensely, as if with heat; "The coals were glowing in the dark"; "The candles were burning"

light, illume, illumine, light up, illuminate

v. make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit"

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Antonyms (6)

snuff out, blow out, extinguish, quench

v. put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"

douse, put out

v. put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights"

set on fire

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