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Meaning ignite meaning

What does ignite mean?
Definitions in simple English

ignite Verb

— If someone ignites something, they light or set fire it.

ignite

— verb (= light) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat Great heat can ignite almost any dry matter Light a cigarette — verb (= combust) start to burn or burst into flames Marsh gases ignited suddenly The oily rags combusted spontaneously — verb (= stir up, wake) arouse or excite feelings and passions The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world Wake old feelings of hatred

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ignite English » English

light kindle set on fire catch fire light a fire burn set fire to take fire inflame fire turn on enkindle switch on stir up spark combust set fire lighting light up erupt conflagrate blaze up blaze wake strike heat flame fire up cause to burn burst into flames initiate flare up excite be lit arouse trigger touch off torch titillate stir up the troubles stir stimulate start a fire start sparkle smoulder shoot sex set alight set aflame

Topics ignite topics

What do people use ignite to talk about?
Daily life Fire

Light a fire

Conjugation ignite conjugation

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ignite · verb

Examples ignite examples

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When I fire into the gasoline, it will ignite instantly and explode the cordite.
Do not ignite bonfires?
Allow me to ignite your cigarette.
Now, the minute you see those rockets ignite on the scope, you fire our missiles and guide them for maximum elevation straight up.
I'm about to ignite the last half of the last cigar in Moscow.
Ignite the fire!
Needs more gel ignite.
Keep looking. Ignite in your eyes the infernal fire of desire.
But we all need something special to ignite it make it burst in the flame.
We're being pulled by Karla Five's unmanned vessel, which is equipped with enough positive matter armament to ignite the dead star into life.
We have to ignite that dead star if we're going home.
I shoot the flares, they ignite the tank.
He's created his own desperate ceremony. just to ignite one flame of original ecstasy in the spiritless waste around him.
If I can ignite it with my laser, it'll blow apart.
Ignite.
The khan's wise enough to know that an attack on Chukoti now will ignite the entire frontier.
Ok, but how are you going to ignite them?
You can't ignite gunpowder with all this gas in the air.
Ignite!
He's created his own desperate ceremony just to. just to ignite one flame of original ecstasy in the spiritless waste around him.
Come on, baby, ignite.
Let's ignite it!
I am about to ignite the last half of the last cigar in Moscow.
I'm ready to ignite. But what should I do with these two? Burn them?
Killers! When they're fired they ignite!
Some of them don't ignite right away.
To ignite the light of knowledge!
If we can ignite the air, we finish off the planet.
I never ignite the light.
Do you want to ignite my drink?
The engine would ignite the plasma.
Ignite the plasma! That's exactly what they were trying to do.

News and current affairs

While Grillo's supporters may ignite fireworks in protest of these gilded giveaways for a few months, a consistent assault leading to genuine reform seems doubtful.
But it may also explain why one self-immolation in Tunisia helped to kindle the Arab Spring, whereas some three dozen self-immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns have failed to ignite a similar popular movement against the Chinese state.
But, if the Annapolis meeting is to re-ignite a successful peace process, EU governments must first develop a common position on this issue.
These early reformers, among them Muhammad Abduh and Jamaleddin al-Afghani, did not ignite the mass mobilization they hoped for, and were not able to redress social ills through better implementation of religious prescriptions.
Moreover, bombs and grenades not only ignite buildings, but also grass, bushes, and trees.
Should instability ignite into open warfare, Russia will find it impossible to avoid the consequences.
Moreover, fuses lit in the colonial era could re-ignite, as they have done, to everyone's surprise, between Ethiopia and Eritrea, where war broke out over a colonial border that Italy's occupiers had failed to define with precision.
Sometimes, just maybe, the austerity program boosts confidence in such a way as to ignite a recovery.
Russian society has become a dry peat bog, waiting for a spark to ignite it.
A crucial bone of contention that might ignite a new war is the future of the country's oil industry and the North-South border demarcation.
Conflicts are overwhelmingly likely to re-ignite in the first year of peace.
The Lebanese front may ignite if Hezbollah seeks to avenge Mughniyah's death, or simply as a result of a knee-jerk reaction to a provocation, as in 2006.
Given these conditions, even a small spark could ignite a wildfire.
By contrast, the emerging-market countries, after a short slide, have managed to re-ignite their growth engines and are sailing full-speed ahead, racking up impressive growth rates.
It would ignite an already incendiary part of the world, with the added risk of global economic collapse if the Strait of Hormuz, through which one-fifth to one-third of the world's oil passes, is blocked.

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