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View definitions for catch fire

catch fire

verb as in combust

Strong matches

Weak match

verb as in ignite

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He has eliminated any brush or flammable plants near his home and surrounds it in gravel to prevent his home from catching fire.

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Despite that Sacramento know-how and an inspirational backstory, her candidacy never caught fire.

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But it quickly caught fire on social media, where users have posted videos of themselves drinking a whole cup or submerging entire burritos in it.

Forty-five Indian pilgrims have been killed after the bus they were travelling in caught fire in an accident near Medina in Saudi Arabia, the police commissioner of India's Hyderabad city has said.

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He then caught fire in the second half against the Bucks, making five threes.

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