set fire
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Etymology
From Middle English setten fyre, equivalent to set + fire.
Verb
set fire (third-person singular simple present sets fire, present participle setting fire, simple past and past participle set fire)
- (intransitive) Followed by to: to cause to be on fire; to light using fire; to set alight.
- Synonyms: set on fire, torch
- They set fire to the house.
- 1941 October, “Notes and News: A Serious Swiss Derailment”, in Railway Magazine, page 469:
- A freight train became completely derailed, blocking the tunnel entrance, and six of the wagons rolled down the mountainside, demolishing and setting fire on their way to a guard house, in which three soldiers were killed.
Translations
to cause to be on fire
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