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Antonyms for set on fireset on fire

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  1. set on fireverb

    To cause to begin to burn.

    Synonyms:
    set fire to, fire, set aflame, ignite, set ablaze, set alight, set afire

  2. set on fireverb

    Synonyms:
    inflame, excite, ignite, rouse

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  1. set on fire

    To burn is to subject to the action of fire, or of intense heat so as to effect either partial change or complete combustion; as, to burn wood in the fire; to burn one's hand on a hot stove; the sun burns the face. One brands with a hot iron, but cauterizes with some corrosive substance, as silver nitrate. Cremate is now used specifically for consuming a dead body by intense heat. To incinerate is to reduce to ashes; the sense differs little from that of cremate, but it is in less popular use. To kindle is to set on fire, as if with a candle; ignite is the more learned and scientific word for the same thing, extending even to the heating of metals to a state of incandescence without burning. To scorch and to singe are superficial, and to char usually so. Both kindle and burn have an extensive figurative use; as, to kindle strife; to burn with wrath, love, devotion, curiosity. Compare LIGHT.

    Antonyms:
    cool, extinguish, put out, smother, stifle, subdue

    Synonyms:
    blaze, brand, burn, cauterize, char, consume, cremate, flame, flash, ignite, incinerate, kindle, scorch, set fire to, singe

    Preposition:
    To burn in the fire, burn with fire; burn to the ground, burn to ashes; burn through the skin, or the roof; burn into the soil, etc.

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  1. set ablaze, set aflame, set on fire, set afireverb

    set fire to; cause to start burning

    "Lightening set fire to the forest"

    Synonyms:
    set aflame, set ablaze, set afire

How to use set on fire in a sentence?

  1. One Angel mother:

    Josh was brutally tortured, strangled over and over, set on fire after death. His last hours were brutal. None of our kids had a minute to say goodbye, we weren’t lucky enough to be separated for five days or 10 days. We are separated permanently.

  2. Wilfredo Ruiz:

    The Florida Muslim Community is suffering an unprecedented number of hate crimes, multiple mosques and Islamic institutions have been broken into, vandalized and even set on fire.

  3. Thomas Paine, Common Sense:

    When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

  4. Alighieri Dante:

    Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.

  5. Noura Al-Jizawi:

    I just wanted to live in a country that respected me as a human; one that offered me some dignity and freedom. I could not accept that I had to live under a dictatorship, for that, we females – even the old ladies – were tortured the same way as the men. We were hung by our feet, electric shocks, our faces beaten into walls and our skin set on fire. My teeth were all broken. I spent more than a month in solitary confinement. I just kept praying for my body to stay alive.

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#27773smother
#43067stifle
#45925extinguish
#54755subdue

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