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Definition of "set ablaze" []

  • Set fire to; cause to start burning (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "set ablaze" in a sentence
  • "During the winter, when the large back-log, often as much as two men could handle, was brought in and fixed in its place, and a good forestick put on the andirons, with well-split maple piled upon it and set ablaze with dry pine and chips, the old fire-place became aglow with cheerful fire, and dispensed its heat through the room."
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