English

Verb

Sense: to commence burning; to become ignited

Synonyms

• catch on fire
• catch fire
• combust
• conflagrate
• fire (dated)
• go up in flames
• go up in smoke
• ignite
• light    [⇒ thesaurus]
• spunk (obsolete)
• take fire (dated)

Antonyms

• burn out
• flame out
• go out
• gutter
• splutter

Hyponyms

• burn up

Hypernyms

• come into being    [⇒ thesaurus]
• happen    [⇒ thesaurus]

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