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View definitions for set fire

set fire

verb as in kindle

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The worker allegedly stole money from clients and set fire to their home after visiting them on 28 July this year, the bank said in a statement.

From BBC

Prosecutors charged a 19-year-old man with the murder of four people he allegedly shot in their Lancaster home and then set fire to the residence to cover his tracks.

Sandoval then set fire to the house to cover up his crimes, according to prosecutors.

In 1637, colonial soldiers had surrounded a major Pequot settlement as Puritan leader John Mason “set fire to the village, which, owing to the strong wind blowing, was soon ablaze,” according to James Truslow Adams’ 1921 Pulitzer-winning “The Founding of New England”:

From Salon

The demonstrators then set fire to the house allegedly belonging to a police officer accused of killing a protester.

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

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