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Ignite   /ɪgnˈaɪt/   Listen
Ignite

verb
(past & past part. ignited; pres. part. igniting)
1.
Cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat.  Synonym: light.  "Light a cigarette"
2.
Start to burn or burst into flames.  Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, take fire.  "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
3.
Arouse or excite feelings and passions.  Synonyms: fire up, heat, inflame, stir up, wake.  "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world" , "Wake old feelings of hatred"



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"Ignite" Quotes from Famous Books



... could be no question about Des Esseintes' choice, but unquestionable difficulties still arose. If red and yellow are heightened by light, the same does not always hold true of their compound, orange, which often seems to ignite and turns to nasturtium, to a ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans

... of no matter what,—the communists, the humanitarians, the philanthropists, you understand,—all these people are our advanced guard. While we are storing gunpowder, they are making the tinder which the spark of a single circumstance will ignite." ...
— Unconscious Comedians • Honore de Balzac

... the "flaming onions,"—i.e., strings of phosphorus balls shot up to light the sky and to ignite any inflammable substance with which they come in contact,—and the black puffs of smoke from the bursting shells add a weird and startling brilliancy to the surroundings. No matter how many times a man may fly at night ...
— Night Bombing with the Bedouins • Robert Henry Reece



Words linked to "Ignite" :   blow out, ignition, provoke, fire up, ignitable, flare up, arouse, burn, ignitible, fire, elicit, change state, evoke, ignitor, catch fire, light up, ferment, catch, kindle, enkindle, extinguish, turn, raise



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