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conflagrate

/ˈkɑn.flə.ɡreɪt/

conflagrate verb: to catch fire.

Verb

conflagrate (third-person singular simple present conflagrates, present participle conflagrating, simple past and past participle conflagrated)

  1. (intransitive) To catch fire.
  2. (transitive) To set fire to something.

conflagrate meaning in Urdu and Bengali

conflagrate in Urdu

جلانا, نذر آتش کرنا

conflagrate in Bengali

আগুন লাগা, কোনো কিছুতে আগুন লাগানো

Synonyms of conflagrate

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Forms of conflagrate

third-person singular presentconflagrates
present participleconflagrating
past participleconflagrated
pastconflagrated

Origin of conflagrate

First attested in 1657; borrowed from Latin cōnflāgrātus, perfect passive participial of cōnflāgrō (“to be consumed by fire; (rare) to set aflame”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Words formed from conflagrate

Questions about conflagrate

What does conflagrate mean?
Conflagrate means to catch fire.
What is conflagrate in Urdu?
Conflagrate in Urdu is جلانا, نذر آتش کرنا. See Conflagrate meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is conflagrate?
Conflagrate is a verb.
How do you pronounce conflagrate?
Conflagrate is pronounced /ˈkɑn.flə.ɡreɪt/ (US).
What is the past tense of conflagrate?
The past tense of conflagrate is conflagrated.

Words near conflagrate in the dictionary

  1. confixes
  2. confixing
  3. conflab
  4. conflabs
  5. conflagrant
  6. conflagrate
  7. conflagrated
  8. conflagrates
  9. conflagrating
  10. conflagration
  11. conflagrations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conflagrate (page history and authors); conflagrate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conflagrate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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