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Meanings of fire-raising in English
Portuguese
fogo posto Catalan
incendi intencionat 
Synonyms
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.
Usage of fire-raising in English
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.
6
The sitting MP, Lord Watson, had resigned following his conviction for wilful fire-raising while drunk at an Edinburgh hotel.
7
Then the fire-raising began.
8
The fire-raising, however, was an excessively barbaric method of getting him to leave the parish, and the view justified the indignation of the gillie.
9
Police said they were treating the incident as wilful fire-raising and were trying to trace the occupants of a white car seen in the area.
10
He served eight months of a 16-month prison sentence for fire-raising after he drunkenly set fire to a hotel curtain in 2004.
11
Fire-raising followed, and that would be a hard heart which could read the tale unmoved.
12
'Fire-raising,' answered the laconic Dominie.
Fire-raising through the time