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Definition of Conflagrate
1. Verb. Cause to start burning. "The setting sun kindled the sky with oranges and reds"
Generic synonyms: Ignite, Light
Specialized synonyms: Rekindle
Derivative terms: Inflammation
2. Verb. Start to burn or burst into flames. "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Specialized synonyms: Blow Out, Catch, Light Up
Related verbs: Burn, Combust
Derivative terms: Combustible, Combustive, Ignitable, Ignitible, Ignition
Definition of Conflagrate
1. Verb. (defdate 17?? C.–present) (intransitive) To catch fire. ¹
2. Verb. (defdate 19?? C.–present) (transitive) To set fire to something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conflagrate
Literary usage of Conflagrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"... ала patriotism—a thing of nothing in itself, but magnified into a hideous
reality, and seized upon to conflagrate the States and dissolve the Union. ..."
2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"Were they to cause rivers and torrents of blood to run, — were they, in. order to
maintain their liberty, to conflagrate seven-eighths of the globe, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1894)
"... Wherethrough escapes The splendid might of thy conflagrate fancies ; With robe
gold-tawny, not hiding the shapes Of the feet whereunto it falleth down, ..."
4. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge (1860)
"A mole may inundate a province—a spark from a forge may conflagrate a city—a
whisper may separate friends—a rumor may convulse an empire—but when we would ..."
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