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alight

verb as in land

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Residents fear the fire will burn all night - and early evening pictures from the scene showed the buildings still alight.

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At the peak of the fire, 100 containers were alight in four different compartments of the ship, according to Fire Department spokesperson Capt. Adam VanGerpen.

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They say that this White Dwarf wrapped itself in a blanket of stolen gas that caught alight quickly, sending a pulse of pressure into the core of the star that ignited the supernova.

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They alighted directly in front of the address Mrs. Clarke had provided.

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A mum and her three children were murdered in a fire after her sister's "jealous" ex-partner broke into their home and set it alight, a trial has heard.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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