Definition of Conflagrate

1. Verb. Cause to start burning. "The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds"

Exact synonyms: Enkindle, Inflame, Kindle
Generic synonyms: Ignite, Light
Specialized synonyms: Rekindle
Derivative terms: Inflammation

2. Verb. Start to burn or burst into flames. "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
Exact synonyms: Catch Fire, Combust, Erupt, Ignite, Take Fire
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Specialized synonyms: Blow Out, Catch, Light Up
Related verbs: Burn, Combust
Derivative terms: Combustible, Combustive, Ignitable, Ignitible, Ignition

Definition of Conflagrate

1. Verb. (defdate 17?? C.–present) (intransitive) To catch fire. ¹

2. Verb. (defdate 19?? C.–present) (transitive) To set fire to something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conflagrate

confitent
confitents
confiteor
confiteors
confits
confiture
confitures
confix
confixative
confixed
confixes
confixing
conflab
conflabs
conflagrant
conflagrate
conflagrated
conflagrates
conflagrating
conflagration
conflagrations
conflagrative
conflagrator
conflagrators
conflagratory
conflate
conflated
conflates
conflating
conflation

Literary usage of Conflagrate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"... ала patriotism—a thing of nothing in itself, but magnified into a hideous reality, and seized upon to conflagrate the States and dissolve the Union. ..."

2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"Were they to cause rivers and torrents of blood to run, — were they, in. order to maintain their liberty, to conflagrate seven-eighths of the globe, ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"... Wherethrough escapes The splendid might of thy conflagrate fancies ; With robe gold-tawny, not hiding the shapes Of the feet whereunto it falleth down, ..."

4. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge (1860)
"A mole may inundate a province—a spark from a forge may conflagrate a city—a whisper may separate friends—a rumor may convulse an empire—but when we would ..."

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