set ablaze


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Verb1.set ablaze - set fire to; cause to start burning; "Lightening set fire to the forest"
combust,burn - cause to burn or combust; "The sun burned off the fog"; "We combust coal and other fossil fuels"
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In half an hour the last warning came: "Light up; the thermometer registers twenty-nine." The smudge-pot artillery wasset ablaze, and kept blazing until the news came that the icy forces had retreated.
The smoke from the fire at times neglected the clay chimney and wreathed into the room, and this flimsy chimney of clay and sticks made end- less threats toset ablaze the whole establishment.
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