Synonyms for kindling
ˈkɪnd lɪŋkin·dling

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1. kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punknoun

   material for starting a fire

   Synonyms:
   hoodlum, firing, goon, lighting, tinder, hood, mettle, ignition, spunk, strong-armer, heart, toughie, tough, punk rock, inflammation, punk, thug, punk rocker, nerve, touchwood

2. ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammationnoun

   the act of setting something on fire

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, fervor, firing, light, liberation, tinder, redness, firing off, dismission, touchwood, sack, ignition, discharge, release, excitement, spunk, sacking, excitation, ignition system, lighting, inflammation, rubor, punk, inflaming, fervour, fire

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1. kindlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   enkindling, incitement, accension

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1. List of paraphrases for "kindling":

   fuelling, excitation

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1. Joe Biden:

   Covid is the match that lit the fire. But Donald Trump has spent the last three years stoking and kindling and undermining the core pillars of our economic strength.

2. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   As the clock strikes midnight, let us not just mark a new year, but ignite the flames of hope within our hearts, kindling the path to transformative change.

3. Author Unknown:

   Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by."

4. Alec Baldwin:

   It's not a witch hunt because a witch hunt indicates that there is very little truth, if none at all, and there is a lot of truth here, but what worries me is that this is a fire that needs constant kindling.

5. Andrew Feltus:

   The dry kindling for sustained inflation is probably here, banks have a lot of ammo to lend money. And wages are accelerating because the labor market is tight. This looks more than transitory.