(written) to start to burn; to make sth start to burn:
[V] Gas ignites very easily. * (figurative) Tempers ignited when the whole family spent Christmas together. * [VN] Flames melted a lead pipe and ignited leaking gas. * (figurative) His words ignited their anger.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ignite is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ignite a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ignite is tagged as verb.
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