Crime of willfully and maliciously setting fire to property.
Sinònims
Examples for "arson "
Examples for "arson "
1 Authorities said they were investigating it as a possible case of arson .
2 An Orange Hall was destroyed in a suspected arson attack early today.
3 A SCHOOL in Co Dublin will reopen today despite an arson attack.
4 A police inquiry begins today and arson has not been ruled out.
5 He was serving a 10- year sentence for conspiring to commit arson .
1 At the inquest, the evidence suggested suspicion of incendiarism and suicide.
2 They were spreading broadcast throughout the country violent reports of incendiarism and riot.
3 Danger from incendiarism was now removed, but a new peril appeared.
4 Ordinary fires, if not kindled, originate either from accident, spontaneous combustion, or incendiarism .
5 The proclamations threatened incendiarism if the peasants did not revolt.
1 With regard to the amount of fire - raising there are no trustworthy statistics.
2 Much more favourite and efficient methods were passive resistance, flight, and fire-raising or murder.
3 There must be close on a hundred of them; and they're fire - raising as they come.
4 On the other hand Mrs. Hampson and Priscilla believed that Emma managed the fire-raising herself.
5 The last and most desperate means of defense which the serfs possessed were fire-raising and murder.
Grammar, pronunciation and more