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set fire into

set fire into is the obsolete form of set fire to.

Meaning of set fire to

Verb

set fire to (third-person singular simple present sets fire to, present participle setting fire to, simple past set fire to, past participle set fire to or (dialectal) setten fire to)

  1. (transitive) To cause (something) to be on fire; to set (something) alight.
    • They set fire to the house.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To destroy or dismantle (something).
    • As soon as the new CEO arrived, he started setting fire to the old way of doing things.
  3. (figuratively, transitive) To stir up intense emotion or action in (something).
    • All it took was one word to set fire to the crowd.
    Synonyms:
    set on fire

Forms of set fire into

third-person singular presentsets fire into
present participlesetting fire into
pastset fire into
past participleset fire into
past participle (dialectal)setten fire into

Questions about set fire into

What is set fire into the obsolete form of?
Set fire into is the obsolete form of set fire to.

Words near set fire into in the dictionary

  1. set dressing
  2. set eyes on
  3. set fair
  4. set fire by
  5. set fire in
  6. set fire into
  7. set fire of
  8. set fire on
  9. set fire to
  10. set fire unto
  11. set fire upon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: set fire into (page history and authors); set fire to (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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