set fire to
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.12 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "They set fire to the house."
- "A freight train became completely derailed, blocking the tunnel entrance, and six of the wagons rolled down the mountainside, demolishing and setting fire on their way to a guard house, in which three soldiers were killed."
- "As soon as the new CEO arrived, he started setting fire to the old way of doing things."
- "All it took was one word to set fire to the crowd."
Usage
Inflected Forms
sets fire to (present, singular)
setting fire to (participle, present)
setten fire to (dialectal, participle)
set fire unto (alternative, archaic)
set fire in (alternative, obsolete)
set fire on (alternative, obsolete)
set fire upon (alternative, obsolete)
set fire of (alternative, obsolete)
set fire by (alternative, obsolete)
set fire into (alternative, obsolete)