Synonyms for catch fire
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Verb
1. Take fire — to become engulfed in flames, to go up in flames
ignite, light, go on fire informal, combust, erupt, take fire dated, conflagrate rare
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Definitions
- v. 1
To become engulfed in flames, to go up in flames.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- come into being happen
Example sentences
- ignite What you wish to ignite in another must burn inside you.
- erupt I feel like a volcano ready to erupt at any moment.
- born If I were to be born again, I would be a musician.
By length
- 4 letters
- born1
- 5 letters
- light1, erupt2
- 6 letters
- ignite2
- 7 letters
- combust2
- 11 letters
- conflagrate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (erupt2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- prendre feu
- Italiano
- prendere fuoco
- Deutsch
- entflammen