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Meanings of take fire in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ignite"
Examples for "ignite"
1
However, we must not do anything that would ignite a clan war.
2
In no specific order, here are 15 pictures to ignite your wanderlust.
3
Even a minuscule amount of allergen can immediately ignite another inflammatory response.
4
For an anxious moment it seemed as if neither engine would ignite.
5
In other words, I wantonly ignite barns that belong to other people.
1
But regular protests continue to erupt against unemployment, poverty and official corruption.
2
Read: Protests erupt in Soweto and JHB South, major traffic disruptions reported
3
The debate grew so heated that it appeared war could erupt again.
4
Similar funding conflicts are set to erupt at campuses across the UK.
5
It means that you know that something can erupt at any moment.
1
When that happens, two materials are brought together and they spontaneously combust.
2
My heart was a trip-hammer and I thought my lungs would combust.
3
I would spontaneously combust with enthusiasm every time I entered a classroom.
4
If I didn't have sex for another day, would I spontaneously combust?
5
There was a risk this could cause the coal inside to combust.
1
The plastic paper behind the stove is dangerous and might catch fire.
2
But Arendse appeared wary of allowing the smouldering issue to catch fire.
3
Despite Ford's progress, Lincoln has failed to catch fire with younger consumers.
4
Lithium-ion batteries can catch fire if they are involved in an impact.
5
They're just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction.
1
A second one and you'll conflagrate.
2
The pod blew, its payload conflagrating in an apocalypse instant, and it plummetted in a smoke-described arc.
Usage of take fire in English
1
Suppose the whole should take fire to-night and burn to the ground.
2
Alcohol, ether, benzol, spirit of turpentine, and petroleum take fire on contact.
3
She was of a slow temper, however, and did not take fire.
4
Can a Man take fire into his Bosom and not be burnd?
5
Bittorf, at Manheim, saw his paper balloon take fire in the air!
6
The wheels take fire from the mere rapidity of their motion.
7
This building was one of the first to take fire on Fifth Street.
8
But if she were to take fire, Troy 'd be nothing to it.
9
He was a man to take fire easily, and embraced me.
10
If one put a candle near her she would take fire, fast enough!
11
I am afraid that with dry sago in it the shell will take fire.
12
Cosette in her shadow, like Marius in his, was all ready to take fire.
13
Then the time came to take fire to the houses.
14
But the agent did not take fire at that jib.
15
The straw was too damp and might not take fire.
16
He saw the corral take fire, rail by rail, until it was all ablaze.
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Translations for take fire
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Take fire across language varieties
United Kingdom
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