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Definition of Catch fire

1. Verb. Start to burn or burst into flames. "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"

Definition of Catch fire

1. Verb. (idiomatic) Become engulfed with flames. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Catch Fire

Literary usage of Catch fire

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide: Illustrated by Twenty-eight by Oliver Evans, Cadwallader Evans, Thomas Ellicott (1860)
"PECULIAR ACCIDENTS BY WHICH MILLS ARE SUBJECT TO catch fire. 1. There being many moving parts in a mill, if any piece of timber fall, and lie on any moving ..."

2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1869)
"... or fho part least likely to catch fire; while, on the other hand, a building constructed after the Hoe plan will be thoroughly free from danger. ..."

3. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1869)
"... to catch fire; while, on the other hand, a building constructed after the Hoc plan will be thoroughly i'ree from danger. — American Artisan. ..."

4. Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America: During by John Davis (1909)
"... the house was in fear that her curtains might catch fire, and set the dwelling in a blaze. But the houses in Virginia are not very superb. ..."

5. Calvinism: An Address Delivered at St. Andrew's, March 17, 1871 by James Anthony Froude (1871)
"As their numbers multiply they catch fire with a common idea and a common indignation, and ultimately burst out into open war with the lies and iniquities ..."

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