set fire's Usage Examples:

2015: Dean Wicks (Matt Di Angelo) threatens to set fire to the pub but is stopped by Mick Carter (Danny Dyer) and Nancy Carter (Maddy Hill).

Some property owners deliberately set fire to damaged properties in order to claim them on their insurance.

guilty to a charge of arson, it being alleged that they had set fire to a rondavel classroom of a "native" school.

In one instance, the Colts donned blackface and set fire to Lithuanian and Polish homes in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in a deliberate attempt to incite the immigrant community to join them in committing heinous acts against African Americans.

ARM then set fire to shops on the Isle of Wight two week later, causing £3 million worth of damage.

Raavan agrees upon this and asks his clergies to set fire to Hanuman"s tail.

Determined to keep Hart with her, Dinah set fire to the farm.

Hit again in the leg, this time with a tracer round which set fire to his clothing, Sgt.

guilty of common law arson, while the landlord who set fire to a rented dwelling house would be guilty.

While working on an oil rig in West Springfield, Homer and Lenny accidentally set fire to an ant.

But at last, despairing of defending it, they set fire to the town, and under cover of the conflagration.

flag, a Bible and an unsheathed sword, set fire to a crude wooden cross, muttered a few incantations about a "practical fraternity among men," and declared.

were saved from rape but not from death, as the Danes soon returned and set fire to the convent, killing Æbbe and her entire community.

Synonyms:

campfire, grassfire, smudge, happening, conflagration, bonfire, brush fire, balefire, natural event, forest fire, inferno, smoulder, occurrence, backfire, smolder, prairie fire, occurrent,

Antonyms:

desensitise, desensitize, curse, bless, stand still,